Jackson Browne - If I Could Be Anywhere lyrics

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