rodney crowell
time to go inward
It's time to go inward, take a look at myself Time to make the most of the time that I've got left Prison bars imagined are no less solid steel  Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid To stare down the barrel of the choices that I've have made The ghost of bad decisions Make mountains out of everything I feel  Outside my window the wind weaves a path through the trees The moon takes a shine to the shadows that fall on the leaves  It's time to go inward, hmm I don't know if I can do it after all that I've become I've been a fool for money But it's vanity that always leaves me flat  It's time to go inward, man I hope I have the nerve To take an inventory of the causes that I serve They say a man without a conscience Is like a man without a country or somethin' like that  It's time to go inward, time to be still If I don't do it now I don't believe I ever will My mind is like a chatterbox Whose noise pollutes the pathways to my soul  Time to go inward, time to get a grip Time to put an end to one long bad acid trip I'm all out of excuses now For the way I've let my choices take a toll  Jesus and Buddha and Krishna and Minnie Pearl knew To do unto others the things you want done unto you  It's time to go inward and take a look at me Try to make some sense of life's illusions that I see And try to solve the riddle Of what it is I have to offer to this world 