What I Got / At 62 What I Got My forebears far back as I can see Were to their credit free spirits like me Even when hobbled by religion They cobbled through by curiosity They wobbled some like some of us do But got there in the end where they got through The destiny of my origin In the origin of my destiny Choosing each other freely as they Found themselves in each other their own way Bound together by their tendency To be curious but curiously Not to blame them in time they became Some crazy people looking for the same Who found themselves before they were gone Winning or losing but with what they won They went their own way but they went on To become something that came with my name By the time I came along to be Ending up with me being crazily With something not to be gotten rid Of unforgotten I got like they did As what I got from my family Something I bring that would come anyway To the end of what has been to try To live up to or down to it or die Trying to be transcendentally In the destiny of my origin The only way out to now through then For me has been to see how it began Curiously again and again Learning the way out turns out to be in The origin of my destiny I got through a lot so I ought to stay For the rest of who I am with what Is why I am how I am so why not Do the best I can with what I got At 62 Some people are old at 62 Others seem younger or are trying to But turning 62 as I do It feels pretty old having lived a lot Getting crazier with what I got From those who went before me as I go Into 2017 although Still pretty immature now even so 62 on Highway 62 At the Hi-Desert hideaway between Life and death in 2017 When I write you though you know what I mean Something that makes me feel like I should Go on doing it being understood It feels pretty old but it feels good To be understood and understand too What I get out of it is I get To get to know you and never forget Somebody gets me so I go on At 62 still until I am gone So here I go for another round Knowing from going around and around Being seeing in the in between Love is all the meaning I ever found The meaning between to be or not Is the meaning between us me and you This is what I got at 62 Steven Curtis Lance