On the Way to Me - Janis Ian

I’m on my way

Though I guess one day I’ll wake

And find it’s just another false alarm

Somebody told me once

You can be whatever you want to be

But it don’t come free

I’m on my way

Though I don’t know where I’m going

I wish I’d gone there yesterday

Cold wind’s blowing at my back

But I can’t stay

Don’t you see?

It’s where I need to be

I’m on my way to me, but I can’t see

My future for the past

If I’d done what you had asked

I could have been there in a flash

I’m on my way back home, but I don’t know

Tomorrow from today

I’m gonna find my way

Find my way

I don’t know who

But there’s a stranger with my face

Who knows the proper things to do

She smiles in all the right places

She runs in all the best races

I do too, but not for you

I’m on the way

And though the stranger bears my name

She just can’t sing the songs I play

But there’s no shame in learning

Halfway there, you want to be turning

Back a while — gonna turn back that dial

I’m on my way to me, but I can’t see

My future for the past

If I’d done what you had asked

I could have been there in a flash

I’m on my way back home

But I don’t know tomorrow from today

I’m gonna find my way — find my way

Find my way back home