Answer

    What is it that we search for
    through the night that is our life
    
    The christians say they've found it
    with a knowing and superior air
    The budhists think they'll find it
    If they can make their thinking clear
    
    The poor think it's money
    The rich think respect
    The lonely say love is the answer
    
    The working man wants freedom
    he dreams of it day by day
    The free man wants purpose
    to give him reason to play the game
    
    The young woman says it's children
    devote your life to them
    The politician says it's power
    where all true, good things stem
    
    The artist says beauty
    The philosopher says truth
    The young folk want wisdom
    and the old folk want youth
    
    If you meet someone who is satisfied
    who no longer strains and strives
    You'll call him a failure
    and pity him when he dies
    For whatever you are searching for
    whatever makes you quiver
    You'll measure him for that one thing
    like a hill judging a river
    
    The saddest thing you'll ever hear
    until your dying day
    I had a dream once upon a time
    but then it went away
    
    But I think that just as sad
    is when someone says to you
    I chased my dream my whole life long
    After all this time I see it's wrong
    
    I met a happy man once
    a professor of botany
    he had a wife, a couple kids
    and inner harmony
    
    
    THC - 1994