Ready to Travel     (music and lyrics by Amanda Mehl © Summer 2003)

 
Man, I hate that question, “When you grow up, what are you going to be?”
And everyone has plenty of suggestions, like it’s a decision we all have to make
As if we can plan the path our lives will take
But I’ve been told, death may come sooner than later
 
But ok, I’ve decided what I’m going to do
All the wisdom tells me to follow my heart
And she has no long term plans, so you don’t need to ask
I am going to be the most conscious, loving, understanding, HUMAN, I can
 
And I will travel
For this life is the journey of the heart and the soul
 
That night was so beautiful, I just had to gaze at the stars
And we lay there in the meadow for hours upon hours
And I thought I might like to die just to be one with it all
so deeply the heavens called me into that sky I wanted to fall
 
And I began to travel with you
For I knew it was what I was meant to do
 
I know that sometimes ultimately we really are all alone
But I hope it’s not quite as bad as that sounds
Now I’ve seen the old ones all start falling down and I’ve watched love changing faces
But this is what it means to be
Nothing is good permanently
 
So I am ready now to travel with you
For I know it is what we are meant to do
 
Times like these I have to believe
That we are part of something grander than we’ll ever know
Maybe all I really want is all within me
And I think all I really need is already here
 
“There are two things every traveler must remember,” he told me
One, you will always return
And Two, you cannot fight the journey, so you gotta just let it carry you
You gotta just, just let it carry you
 
And I want to travel with you
For as long as it’s what we are meant to do
And I know a day will come when you or I must go
But for time in my life spent with you I am so grateful
 
To have traveled with you
To have traveled with you