Live In The Now

I got a farmhouse
It's a big white farmhouse
And forty acres in my head
You got a kitchen
An oak-floored kitchen
And a big brass feather bed

There in the parlor
An old upright piano
And a precocious blue-eyed kid
Playing the keys
Playing the keys

Live in the now
A room with a view of Cambridge
Live in the now
The traffic noise, the neighborhood kids

You're sitting in the kitchen
You reach across the table
And put a finger on my wrinkled brow
You say live in the now
Live in the now

'Cause life is what happens when you're busy making plans
That's what John Lennon said then he quit the fucking band
Now tell me which part, is it the castle or the sand
That you miss when the tide comes along

I'm alone on the highway
Only silos break the view
A field of sunflowers
A scarecrow paying dues
I think to myself, man, that's not what I'd choose
But here I am, and look where I've gone
All for a song
'Til the tide comes along

Live in the now
The audience is waiting
Live in the now
Whose day are you creating
I slip into the hotel

Got the phone on the pillow
Your voice makes it better somehow

You say live in the now
Live in the now

Live in the now
Live in the now
Live in the now
Live in the now
Live in the now