A Whole New Street

There’s a café on the corner

With the windows painted gold

Someone waves at me from inside

Like we’ve known each other years

Flowers hang from balconies

There’s music in the square

A little girl just smiled at me

And I smiled back at her

Every street could lead somewhere

And I just want to wander there

Look at this place

Look at these people

Look at the colors running down every street

Someone says hello

Someone shows me where to go

Someone laughs because I stopped

To watch the pigeons at my feet

Maybe the world is bigger

Than anything I knew

If every road can feel like this

I want to see them all come true

There’s a baker by the station

Who insists I take one more

And a woman selling postcards

Says she heard my songs before

Someone asks me for a picture

Someone else just says my name

Not like I’m something strange to study

Just because they’re glad I came

Look at this place

Look at these people

Look at the evening waking up every street

Someone calls goodbye

As the lanterns start to shine

And somewhere through an open door

A song spills into the night

Maybe the world is bigger

Than anything I knew

And every little corner

Feels like something new

I said, “Did you see the fountain?”

He said, “It’s still a fountain.”

But there were lights beneath the water

And a thousand things around us

Maybe I’m easily impressed

Maybe he’s impossible to impress

But I’d rather stop for wonder

Than walk by and miss it all

So let him roll his eyes

I’m not done sightseeing yet

Look at this place

Look at these people

There’s still a whole world waiting for me

Maybe tomorrow

There’ll be another road

Another light I’ve never seen

Another place I want to know

So let the whole day find me

I don’t care where it leads

There’s still a world waiting

At the end of every street

A different light

A different view

A thousand places

I never knew

And if tomorrow brings another…

I want to see that one too.