I need to find love, to catch it and hoard,
To check it like a king on a chessboard;
I need to fly blind like an arrow,
To free-fall for someone, like...oh,
Like the sun needs to rise tomorrow
I need to go crazy, to look straight stupid.
Yet in that abandon, find favour in cupid.
And I want, oh so much to be found
Like a falling leaf needs the ground.
I want too to succeed, to lift my head above
Like the boldest bull in the herd;
In my time I want to have conquered
Popular opinion, fame and political love;
I crave to pause where I leave my mark
And like Ozymandias say, “Look on my work!”
I hope that in the cycle of time I have risen
From the ugly forms wherein my soul's been a denizen,
Through gleaming gold, dirty iron and forsaken earth,
That the past is punishment and this, my final birth.
I wish in time to run free- a spirit
Unbound in form and loving it,
I want to be with the best spirits you can find-
Like the high, the gentle and the forever kind.
But then stronger grows my hunger for money
I cheat and play low tricks on you every day, honey,
I kiss you with my lips while my hands pick your pocket;
I swindle and sell friendship for a one-way ticket!
Oh but I want it all- fame and fortune, peace and quiet,
To escape without a scrape and be the hero yet!
And like a camel's love for pasture here and heaven there
This relentless wanting wears my soul bare!
