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Artist/Band: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Lyrics for Song: What You Look For
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Mary Chapin Carpenter



What you look for on a dirty street

Is a patch of green beneath your feet

A stubborn weed or traveling rose

Either one, it lives to grow



What you look for in a stranger's eyes

Is if he sees through your disguise

How we long to be revealed

To be known we might be healed



Send it out into the universe

A humble plea, a wish, a broken verse

Be the seed that lands inside the cracks

Seek the sun and it shines back

It shines backs



What you looked for when you were a girl

Was a window out into the world

From a speeding car or a passing train

You were hypnotized just the same



What you look for now that you are grown

Is proof of how the time has flown

An empty house, a strand of grey

And an endless long for yesterday



Send it out into the great elsewhere

A kind of hope, a chant, a simple prayer

Be the child whose dreams won't ever fade

Shout the storm that barricades



What you look for in your darkest hour

Is a dirty a street or just a flower



Send it out not knowing where it went

To the blue, into the firmament

Be the one who wonders at it all



Send it out into the universe

A humble plea, a wish, a broken verse

Be the seed that lands inside the cracks

Seek the sun and it shines back

It shines back


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Mary Chapin Carpenter


Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Other Songs - Mary Chapin Carpenter"


1. Bells Are Ringing
2. Children, Go Where I Send Thee
3. Christmas Carol
4. Christmas Time In The City
5. Dead Man Walking
6. Holding Up The Sky
7. Hot Buttered Rum
8. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
9. My Dear Old Friend
10. On A Quiet Christmas Morn
11. Once In Royal David's City
12. Other Streets, Other Towns
13. Pete
14. Romeo
15. Still, Still, Still
16. Thanksgiving Song
17. The Longest Night Of The Year
18. What You Look For