Now the distance is done and search has begun - I've come to see where my beginnings have gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDbI2UJhXM

Please, please listen.

"Well I looked into a house I once lived in
around the time I first went on my own,
when the roads were as many as the places I had dreamed of
and my friends and I were one.

Now the distance is done and the search has begun -
I've come to see where my beginnings have gone.

Oh, the walls and the windows were still standing
and the music could be heard at the door,
where the people who kindly endured my odd questions
asked if I came very far.

And when my silence replied, they took me inside,
where their children sat playing on the floor.

Well we spoke of the changes that would find us farther on
and it left me so warm and so high,
but as I stepped back outside to the gray morning sun,
I heard that highway whisper and sigh, "Are you ready to fly?"

And I looked into the faces all passing by -
it's an ocean that will never be filled -
and the house that grows older and finally crumbles
that even love cannot rebuild.

It's a hotel at best, you're here as a guest.
You oughta make yourself at home while you're waiting for the rest.

Well, I looked into the dream of the millions,
that one day the search will be through.
Now here I stand at the edge of my embattled illusions,
looking into you.

The great song traveler passed through here,
and he opened my eyes to the view,
and I was among those who called him a prophet,
and I asked him what was true.

Until the distance had shown how the road remains alone,
now I'm looking for my life in a truth that is my own.

Well, I looked into the sky for my anthem
and the words and the music came through,
but words and music will never touch the beauty that I've seen
looking into you,
and that's true."
Jackson Browne

Help me with this. I think I have to learn something from it because it hits me kind of hard when I listen to it, but I'm not quite there yet. Please discuss.

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