The Philosopher's Song

Where are you off to today, with your old hat and smile?

Are you bound to find some rainbow in a cloudy sky?

Are you listening to the wind, Is it singing you a song

As it circles all around you down that road so long?

Where are you off to today with your eyes shining bright

Set upon some new horizon in the morning light

Do you hold within your hands another dream we all can share

For a better world a-waiting down that road somewhere?

Now you say that the answer's within ourselves

And that time is a wish come true

And no matter how troubled the toiling seems

There is worth in the work we do

Where are you off to today with your books and all their truths?

Do you find within their pages what we must not lose?

And in the wisdom of their words do you seek a better way

That we may touch a bright tomorrow and a brand new day?