If I Could Be Anywhere

　　If I Could Be Anywhere-Jackson Browne

　　Sliding on the shimmering surface between two worlds

　　Standing at the center of time as it uncurls

　　Cutting through the veil of illusion

　　Moving beyond past conclusions

　　Rendering all doubt and confusion clear

　　If I could be anywhere

　　If I could be anywhere

　　If I could be anywhere right now

　　I would want to be here

　　Searching for the future among the things we're throwing away

　　Swimming through the ocean of junk we produce every day

　　You have to admit it's clever

　　Maybe the pinnacle of human endeavor

　　When things are made to throw away but never made to disappear

　　If I could be anywhere

　　If I could be anywhere

　　If I could be anywhere in time

　　I would want to be here

　　The Romans, the Spanish, the British, the Dutch

　　American exceptionalism - so out of touch

　　Successions of empire repeating its course

　　Extracting the wealth and ruling by force

　　On and on through time

　　But the world can't take it very much longer

　　And we won't make it 'less we're smarter and stronger

　　The world's going to shake itself free of our greed somehow

　　If I could be anywhere

　　If I could be anywhere in time

　　If I could be anywhere and change things

　　It would have to be now

　　They say nothing lasts forever

　　But all the plastic ever made is still here

　　And no amount of closing our eyes will make it disappear

　　And the world can't take it very much longer

　　And we won't make it 'less we're smarter and stronger

　　The world's going to shake itself free of our greed somehow

　　And the world can't take it, that you can see

　　If the oceans don't make it neither will we

　　The world's going to shake itself all the way free somehow

　　If I could be anywhere

　　If I could be anywhere in time

　　If I could be anywhere and change the outcome

　　It would have to be now