"Time to reach for stars again"

I Want to Dream Again on the Fourth of July in the Year 2010 The way it is has never seemed right And why it has to be this way Is something I have never understood Some say it is all a conspiracy But probably it is more random Than that as the general tendency For use to come with abuse in tandem As yin and yang in unsound equipoise The weeds grow with the grain And stronger it seems When what is bad does well with what is good And we no longer sing together Our music in common becomes common noise Our eyes narrow and as they do lose sight Of now uncommon common joys And dangerous changes in the weather As we lose the light So I keep to myself a lot now Remembering what some forgot how Love is what casts out fear What we listen for All we need to hear What all of us are wondering about Wondering like me again What happened to our dreams Our muddied waters have made clear We could hate a lot less and love a lot more Who hear a whisper clearer than a shout Love is what we listen for To speak love and to listen empathy Transcending fear and vanity And with respect between To mean what we say a more meaningful way To know what we mean without being mean Love is all we need to hear A long way to go but not too far Boys will be and girls will too But we are better than we do On this tomorrow of our yesterday We dreamed it would be better when We dreamed of it before That now would be along in time by then That we would all drive flying cars by now By the way I wanted to soar But then we stopped reaching for stars somehow Stars to aspire to and stars to attain A long way to go but not too far For the somehow of now and for who we are At the time to wake up to dream some more Time to reach for stars again I can wait awhile for my flying car When only weeds remain Or so it seems So to say But once I dreamed of catching a star And about you catching one too Wondering like me again About our dreams Delay has denied We feel it in our hearts we know Our love like our time is tough Because of the dreams we hold inside And we have waited long enough Now to bring in the grain Time for love to be and do A long way coming and a long way to go A long way to go but not too far To make our dreams come true And catch a star I want to dream again +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX