If I Could Be Anywhere

If I Could Be Anywhere - Jackson Browne (傑克遜·布朗)

Sliding through the shimmering surface

Between two worlds

Standing at the center of time as it uncurles

Cutting through the veil of illusion

Moving beyond past conclusions

Rendering all my doubt and confusion unclear

If I could be anywhere

If I could be anywhere

If I could be anywhere right now

I would want to be here

Searching for the future among

The things we're throwing away

Trying to see the world through

The junk we produce everyday

They say nothing lasts forever

That all the plastic ever made is still here

That no amount of closing

Our eyes will make it dissapear

If I could be anywhere

If I could be anywhere

If I could be anywhere in time

I would want to be here

The romans the spanish the british the dutch

American exceptionalsim so out of touch

The faling of empire repeating its course

Imposing its will rolling

By force on and on through time

But the world can't take it very much longer

We're not gonna make unless

We're smarter than stronger

The worlds gonna shake itslef

Free of our greed somehow

If I could be anywhere

If I could be anywhere in time

If I could be anywhere and change

Thing it would have to be now

They say nothing lasts forever

That all the plastic ever made is still here

That no amount of closing

Our eyes will make it dissapear

But the world can't take it very much longer

We're not gonna make unless

We're smarter than stronger

The worlds gonna shake itslef free

Of our greed somehow

And the world can't take it that you can see

If the ocean don't make it neither will we

The worlds gonna shake itself

All the way free somehow

If I could be anywhere

If I could be anywhere in time

If I could be anywhere and change

The outcome it would have to be now