Some times I like to be alone
Just driving in my car
It only matters that I go
Not where, nor yet how far
 
We’re all of us upon one road
In many different cars
Some are new and polished bright
Some old and bearing scars
 
The cars reflect the way life is
A truth they may reveal
Analogies of what one sees
Portraying what is real
 
When on my own upon the road
I felt I did belong
I could feel safe inside my car
Alone I could be strong
 
For then the world is shut away
The pace of life subdued
Everyone’s just passing by
I’m safe, they can’t intrude
 
When I’m alone in that small space
I know I’m in control
Deciding just how fast to go
And what should be my goal
 
There’s no one there to pressure me
Giving me directions
Telling me just what to do
And listing imperfections
 
All my faults are hidden there
Where no one else can see
There’s no one there to say I’m wrong
Or say what I should be
 
But if to travel all alone
To shut oneself away
Excludes all that is good in life
Then what a price to pay!
 
Exclude the pain, exclude the joy
The two go hand in hand
For blanking what we’re feeling must
Make what remains too bland
 
We see the world in black and white,
In endless shades of grey
The dull and formless shades of night
Remain throughout the day
 
Our road is grim and full of pain
And seldom do we smile
We lose the sun and gain the rain
For mile, on mile, on mile
 
What can we find in all the grey
To brighten what we see?
What is there in the sombre day
To make the darkness flee?
 
Yet if we try we can let go
This sombre, rigid role
And we can let the colours show
By loosing our control
 
A colour seen is some event
That may have come by chance
That brings a feeling of content
Some happy circumstance
 
With something to feel good about
A hint of happiness
We see bright hues of flowers sprout
Where all was colourless
 
What is it that this colour means?
What does it signify?
When in the grey of in between
It shines and finds our eye
 
A colour seen is happiness
We feel it here and there
In little glints among the stress
Of this harsh life we share
 
For that is how life seemed to me
A panoply of grey
What spots of colour I could see
Would quickly fade away
 
Until one day the world was changed
Darkness replaced by light
And many brilliant colours ranged
Before my dazzled sight
 
My whole world set in brilliant hue
Is what I now can see
Colour pervading all I view
true happiness in me
 
And yet some days the pall returns
And colour drains away
As sadness spreads, depression burns
A sickly, ashen grey
 
The dull, grey light is not the world
It’s just the way I see
When misery has been uncurled
And woken up in me
 
Now, I can tell you what I mean
Describe the way I feel
A revelation I have seen
Which helps me know what’s real
 
The drab, grey world was not outside
That’s what I couldn’t see
And any colours that I spied
Were what shone in on me
 
But happiness now glows within,
Its colours shining out
It isn’t just some little thing
That I feel good about
 
Now I feel it everywhere
Below and up above
At last I’ve found out how to share
The happiness of love
 
Such happiness is all too rare
A very precious thing
But we can see it anywhere
If we have it within
 
For love is not an outside thing
That shines into our heart
But it is something inside us
That glows, that we impart