Ode to Jack Johnson

It's time to hit the road
Where should I go?
Here or there, I don't quite know
Just anywhere but home,
home, home, home, home.

It's time for me to roll up my sleeves
Go see some different places
See some different faces
Feel some different spaces with
My two hands
Open wide
This beatin' heart inside sayin'
"C'mon let's try."

I know someday I'll be back just
Not anytime soon
This is what I must do
It's now or tomorrow why wait
Why wait til a quarter too late?
The road is laughin' my name,
Name, name, name, name.

I've got the whole world packed
Folded and flat
My yellow fisherman's hat
Two number 2 pencils and postcard stamps -
I'll beg and barter the rest.

I'll follow the rising sun all the way around
Til my feet splash down
In every blue ocean sound they can reach
Climb every mountain they meet
Stroll every cobblestone street.

Then one ukulele day
I'll run out of road or
Run out of flow or
Run out of clothes then I'll know
It's time for me to roll back home.

But here inside my soul
I'll write about every night sky
Every boat dock sunrise
Every pair of eyes that I meet
I'll meet, I can't wait to meet.

Then when I'm comin' back travelin' home
I'll sing a thousand long miles of
Musical notes
That I will never live or will never know
Unless I seize today, seize today
And get up and go
Go, go...
It's time for me to go.