I pull my coat in tight
and drift through the morning sidewalk crowds
slip by the newsstand lines
and breathe in the grease and coffee grounds
Here in the stream of traffic
I see the years that pass me by
each one drives hard and fast and
I might still be asking why…but
Chorus:
The way I see it is you, me,
and a billion other people and years
maybe I'd be fighting the same fears
but you give me a reason why
anything matters
anything matters at all
We sit on your high-rise roof
and we watch the skyline catching fire
as the constellations move
over the fire escapes and wires
The space goes on forever
but my heart is always here with you
we'll race these years together
and then take off into the blue and
Chorus:
The way I see it is you, me,
and a billion other people and years
maybe I'd be fighting the same fears
but you give me a reason why
anything matters
anything matters
I don't know, I don't know what's up ahead
I just know the way I picture it
Chorus:
The way I see it is you, me,
and a billion other people and years
maybe I'd be fighting the same fears
but you give me a reason why
anything matters
anything matters at all
With a billion other people all looking for purpose, I sometimes wonder if there's any reason to it all. I keep coming back to the one thing that gives me a sense of belonging - love. Without it, would anything really matter? When all the striving and trying to become is stripped away, all I'm left with is the only thing that gave it any meaning to begin with.