Before I Get There

How long now have I been here?
And how long will I stay?
Got a little more work to do
Before I’m on my way
Tying all of my loose ends
Still got debt to pay
Picking up the pieces
Before I’m on my way
Before I’m on my way
Before I’m on my way
Before I get there
Before I show up
Before I’m somewhere
Before I grow up
I’ll be here taking in right now ‘til I’m ready to go
When my time comes along to move on then I’ll already know
I’ll be ready to go
All the coming and going
I see it everyday
But I got a little more work to do
Before I’m on my way
While I’m still here in the place I lay
I’ll be soaking up the moments
Before I’m on my way
I do believe that the measure of a man
Is the length he will go from the place he began
And I remind myself as I walk across the land
That the less I overstep means the more I understand