all I've done is run

Do we ever know what it is that keeps us moving forward? What it is that makes us get out of bed in the morning? You'd think with such a fucked up world all around us, we'd find more reasons to stay in bed.

Ready, on my mark, doesn't everyone

Need a place in the world

Could be right before your very eyes

just beyond a door that's open wide

could be far away

or in your own backyard

There are those who say,

you can look too hard

For your place in the world

There is the idea that hope never dies. That even though you feel as though all hope has left you, there is still some of it left out there- just waiting to be snatched down like a star at midnight.

Takes some of us a little longer

A few false starts gonna make you stronger when I'm sure I've finally found it gonna wrap these arms all around it

If you fail, you get up again and again and again. There is no true failure except never trying again. You never know when the tide will turn.

Could be one more mile, or just one step back, in a lovers smile, down a darkened path, friends will take our side, enemies will curse us

But to be alive is to know your purpose

It's your place in the world

Your place in the world

Your place in the world

Grasp your mind around this: Your place in the world is where you are right now. No matter what you're doing, who you're with- you're here and you're alive and life is good. Even when it's not, it still beats the alternative.

So give yourself a hug and give yourself a break. You're all you've got and that's enough. You're beautiful.

Italics Lyrics by Mary Chapin Carpenter