Why Live Anywhere

And here we are in this here town

that is, for now, our stomping grounds,

but we could move a hundred miles

to the same stores, and streets and styles.

But here we have family and friends,

some roots, some length, and some split ends.

If those things are what life’s about

we’ll find them within and we’ll find them without.

So why live, why live,
why live anywhere?
We seem to land just where we fall.
It matters a lot, but hardly at all.
We go on living wherever we are,
so settle near or settle far.

Just have a reason to be there–
but why live anywhere?

If you ask this question too,
let’s move together to a big commune,
and find life’s meaning and relocation’s end
but even there, we’d miss our friends.

So why live, why live,
why live anywhere?
We seem to land just where we fall.
It matters a lot, but hardly at all.
We go on living wherever we are,
so settle near or settle far.

Just have a reason to be there–
but why live anywhere?