Shell Game

How many times in a lonely night
Someone you'd like to know passed you by
With half-held words your chance to speak
But too late, he's down the street

Cast off that shell
Don't resist the unknown
Your understandin', mhm, it's open-handed
Hold it closed and you're alone

We chain ourselves with petty games
We build false walls with titled names
To find a road that leads someplace
When we're passing it everyday

Cast off that shell
Don't resist the unknown
Your understandin', mhm, it's open-handed
Hold it closed and you're alone

To stand naked for the sun
When that's the awareness of everyone
To be open is to be free
To enclose is a channeled mean

Cast off that shell
Don't resist the unknown
Your understandin', mhm, it's open-handed
Hold it closed and you're alone

So don't you wait until you're stranded
To ask somebody to throw a hand in
Just be there in your freeform patterns
These shackled games of life won't matter

Cast off that shell
Don't resist the unknown
Your understandin', it's open-handed
Hold it closed and you're alone