Outside In - Chris Smither

Did you ever stop to notice

It’s when you feel a little low

That the entire spinning universe

Descends to say hello

With heavy-handed cheerfulness

And a calculated smile and says

'Carry me awhile'

But you don’t have to carry

Much of anything at all

The biggest thoughts of bigger things

Are really pretty small

The major thoughts that occupy the minor state of mind

Are what we leave behind

Just a minor thought that we can leave behind

Don’t worry 'bout the future, you can’t afford the price

There’s madness to the method when you pay the piper

Twice once when you start to worry

Once again when you begin to take the future on the

Chin I know that you think worry is your ever-faithful

Friend cuz nothin' that you worry over ever happens in the

End and there might be somethin' to it

But it sure gets in the way of fun today

What you say we try and have some fun today

It takes a sense of balance on this tiny little ball

With a tiny mind still big enought to think about it all

To realize the size of things is just a state of mind

And you can change your mind

There’s a riddle in the middle of that univeral spin

But we’re out here on the edges where it gets a little thin

So just for once permit yourself a carefree little grin

From the outside lookin' in

Cuz we’re out here on the outside lookin' in

And it’s better on the outside lookin' in