What Is by Sandra McCracken, Ben Shive

What Is - Single by Sandra McCracken, Ben Shive

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What Is
by Sandra McCracken, Ben Shive

Album: What Is - Single

What could have been
Missed the only train
"What should have been"
We only ask in vain
What we we aim for, we exchange for
Where we've landed

You can open up the present every day
You can cry for the one that got away
Like the rain at dawn,
And the clouds roll on
Empty handed

We could miss all of this,
If we wish it all away
I wanna wake up
In the moment,
Receiving what is
What is, what is
Oooh,
What is, what is
What is
Oooh

Sometimes memory tricks or trades
Sometimes the photograph, it fades
So I counterfeit
A creation myth
To understand me

I went back to my old hometown
The whole scene almost knocked me down
I thought I'd left for good
But the Healer would
Not unhand me

We could miss all of this,
If we wish it all away
I wanna wake up
In the moment,
Receiving what is
What is, what is
Oooh,
What is, what is
What is
Oooh

I can see the end of it
Every vector pointing
To the wondrous why and when of it
And all the lines rejoining
At the still point of the turning world
Where the past and future gather
What was and is and is to come
What is ever after

We could miss all of this,
If we wish it all away
I wanna wake up
In the moment,
Receiving what is
What is, what is
Oooh,
What is, what is
What is
Oooh

What we aim for, we exchange for where we've landed
Like the rain at dawn and the clouds roll on empty handed
I wanna wake up in this moment
I wanna wake up in this moment,
Receiving what is