Wander I Go - Patti Smith

I go there

There’s a place that I go

Not for pleasure, not for show

No I just take comfort there

It’s a marvellous place

I forget about my face and the clothes I wear

I arrive there naked as the day I was born

I’m relieved at the door of disguises I’ve worn

There is no hall of mirrors but I do see myself

I’m delighted by my reflection

I am not somebody else

No I’m the person I always wanted to be

The person I always wanted to be

I go there, I go there

To find wind on a still still day

I go there I go there

To find stillness when the wind might blow me away

And when I’m feeling the need to look deep into my heart

I see all of the signs pointing me back to the start

When I believed in my visions

When I trusted in my dreams

When no amount of trouble ever turned out to be

More trouble than it seems

Oh the person I always wanted to be

Yeah the person I always wanted to be

When I’m feeling the need to look deep into my heart

I hear a celebration and I’m invited to take part

I watch as my hopes triumph over my fears

And I dance with the child I lost touch with though the years

Ah the person I always wanted to be

Yeah the person I always wanted to be

There’s a place that I go

Not for pleasure

Not for show

No, I just take comfort there