CHARIOT (I KNOW)

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I want to run up every mountain

I want to wade through every ocean

I want to gaze upon these fields from clouds above

I want to start off each day swimming

Meet me 18,000 women

Don't I want to fool around to the finish

I want to fall in love

 

And don't I want to dance all night

To a new school rag

Take my tune and carry it

Spin me 'round, spin me 'round

Spin me 'round, sweet chariot, swing low

 

I want to love, I want to learn to love everything

I want everyone to love all the words I sing

But the world's too big

The world's too big, I know

Yeah, I know, I know, I know

 

And I met a man from San Bernardino

Says his life ain't all that great

Says he missed his shot at the big time

When the little Titanic sank

He still got himself into the movie, though

He was a third hand or a third mate

And he don't think it's all that great

It's not the role he wanted

 

Shit, I know people in New York

Who'd kill to get that job

Seems like everybody moving forward

But got their head up in the stars

I want to tell them all be patient, now

You get there if you take it slow

But it don't work like that, the world's too big

The world's too big, I know

 

Yeah, I know, I know, I know

Oh, I know

Yeah, I know, I know, I know

 

And I know this great big world, it could not have a care

Spinning 'round in circles, so obtuse and unaware

Really so small, it's like it isn't even there

So what if I die here

So what if I run a marathon or else just lie here

So what if time moves on

If all I am is gone, what could right and wrong

So what is it, so what is it I want

 

I want to run up every mountain

I want to wade through every ocean

I want to gaze upon these streets from clouds above

I want to start off each day swimming

Meet me 18,000 women

Don't I want to fool around to the finish, I want to fall in love

 

And don't I want to dance all night

To an old deejay

Take my tune and carry it

Spin me 'round, spin me 'round

Spin me 'round, sweet chariot, swing low

 

I want to love, I want to learn to love everything

I want everyone to love all the words I sing

But the world's too big

The world's too big, I know

Yeah, I know, I know, I know

I know

Yeah, I know, I know, I know