Interesting piece about appreciating whats in your own backyard and keeping an open mind about everything else.

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This was recorded in my home studio from 10/2000 - 1/2001 using Cool Edit Pro. I wrote the song about 14 years ago while I was living in a cabin in the woods of the Upper Pennisula of Michigan.

I've heard it said before by those much kinder than I
That what seperates a wiseman from a fool
Is what he sees when he looks into the sky
What he sees when he looks into the sky

One might see a big space
While another might long for the moon
Another might see only unreachable stars
But a fool looks back down at his shoes

And a wise man sees his own backyard
A wise man always lives in the stars
A wise man wants to re-write the book
And it's thrown into the fool's fire
Without even a look

Somewhere close by and yet so far away
Is a place where we came from that we may see again someday
A place of more breadth and more depth than we'll know
And a fool has never seen where a wise man will go

And a wise man sees his own backyard
A wise man always lives in the stars
A wise man wants to re-write the book
And it's thrown into the fool's fire
Without even a look