Where You Are

I wanna be where you are

I've got to be where you are

I've got to be where you are

A young kid among the pack

The same place a hundred million other kids is at

The same type of face and the same type of stacks

He tryin' to find his way yeah he tryin' to find his path

A new girl up on the set

She come from California with the sun upon her chest

Got all the boys up on her 'cause she hotter than the rest

He tryin' to get his weight up 'cause he gotta be the best

Yeah so he can flex, flex

So he started talkin' to her right

Wide eyed and words stumblin'

Askin' for her name and her number and

Where she comin' from and shit

But the girl saw somethin' sweet

And so she let him walk her home

Had him in for a bite to eat

And they became friends and later lovers

From after school specials to rollin' in the covers

And they be sittin' in the park starin' at the stars

Thinkin' I just wanna be where you are

I wanna be where you are

I've got to be where you are

I've got to be where you are

And now that kid's growin' up

He always in the gym playin' ball blowin' up

He wanna play in college yeah he wanna throw it up

But still he need a scholarship 'cause money's slowin' up

And the girl's growin' too

She's tryin' to figure out exactly what she wants to do

She know she wanna be with him but she don't have a clue

How she gonna tell him she got in a different school

Oo man it's cruel

But that's how life goes sometimes you know

When one door closes another opens

And lovers find theyself so far from what they know

But they keep hope alive and they keep tryin'

Through all the lonely nights the phone calls the cryin'

And he be on the courts yearnin' for the ball

While she be in the books just learnin' 'bout the law

And even though they're very far they look up at the stars

And still think I wanna be where you are

I wanna be where you are

I've got to be where you are

I've got to be where you are

And now that kid's become a man

He finished all his school and he's got a different plan

He had to leave the ball behind he had to take a stand

He got a 9 to 5 'cause he wanna raise a fam

And yo the girl's doin' fine

She moved so far away but she's always on his mind

She's caught up in her work and she got a different guy

But still she miss the time he would tell her that you're mine

Yeah she started cryin'

And so she called him up one night right and said

Where you are is where I wanna be

But where I gotta go ain't even that close to where you gonna be

And I don't know what's in front of me

I gotta lot of life to live before I stop runnin'

Still I remember times you were holdin' me

And told me never let go I wish I'd never let go

So I sit alone in the park starin' at the stars

Knowin' I could never be where you are

I wanna be where you are

I've got to be where you are

I've got to be where you are