With Friends Like You

With Friends Like You                          December 13, 2004

Sometimes, I feel like I get lost in a wild wilderness. 

The darkness just gets to be almost too much to bear. 

No sun to help light the path before me. 

No compass to direct me to and fro. 

But with friends like you, I can make it through 

From sea to shining sea, and then some, too. 

You're beautiful, man, and I hope to repay you someday, 

But today, you'll have to settle with me as a friend. 

Somewhere along the way, I became lost. 

I was heading for nowhere, nowhere fast. 

I prayed for help, anything to guide me on to the golden path, 

To a way of clarity I haven't known in so long. 

But with friends like you, I can make it through, 

And we can learn about each other true. 

Somehow, I've managed to go on without any friends like you, 

And Lord, how I've really paid the price. 

I was blinded by lies, by mistruths, 

And I was deceiving only myself. 

One day, it occurred to me, "What am I going to do?" 

I had wasted my life; it had flew and flew. 

But with friends like you, I can make it through. 

I can go anywhere and see anything in this great, big, round world. 

With a friend like you, we might as well reach for the skies, 

Reaching for the sun's rays, let them irradiate our lives.