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On this page are lyrics to Fertile Inner World,
Maple Leaf, and Potential.
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How does it happen, how do changes come?
Do they whip around the corner, do they dawdle some?
Do they enter through the senses to affect your DNA?
Or are they hidden all along the way?
In the grey matter where ideas flirt and dance together
And regenerate and replenish that fertile inner world
In the grey matter where ideas flirt and dance together
And regenerate and replenish that fertile inner world
How does it happen, how do children grow?
In a world so full of wonder, yet so much they know
How do big imaginations fit into such tiny frames?
Or are we larger inside our brains?
In the grey matter where ideas flirt and dance together
And regenerate and replenish that fertile inner world
In the grey matter where ideas flirt and dance together
And regenerate and replenish that fertile inner world
We've got such big brains, so much capacity
Big brains, the die is cast, you see
Big brains, it's revolutionary
Big brains, it's evolutionary
The final frontier, lies within the fertile inner world
In the grey matter where ideas flirt and dance together
And regenerate and replenish that fertile inner world
In the grey matter where ideas flirt and dance together
And regenerate and replenish that fertile inner world
© Copyright 1998 Verlene Schermer/BMI
All Rights Reserved
The maple leaf turned ripely autumn-toned
And fell uncertainly toward the ground
But then was rescued by a whirling wind
And carried to a brisk, impatient stream
And set so lovingly and lightly down
It did not sink, but floated swiftly on
And on past apple orchards, meadow lands
And rocky crags. The river over ran
The cliff's tall edge and with it fell the brown
Half-moistened maple leaf. "How far I've come!"
The leaf exclaimed, "and yet how far from home
With no way ever to return again!"
And with the water falling all around,
It plunged into the pool's dark depths. And then,
It floated to the surface where the sun
Beat down its warmth to push the process on.
The blackened maple leaf could not have known
That it would finally come to winter-in
Among the mildew in the stagnant pond.
But this was not the lengthy journey's end:
The decomposing leaf would now return
Its elements into the pool, the ground
And then into the air where they might find
Their way back to the tree in early spring
To feed her for the new growth on her limbs.
And as her spring-and-summer-worth of green
Begins to turn to gold when autumn comes,
She'll willingly release what she has grown
Because the cycle must continue on.
© Copyright 1998 Verlene Schermer/BMI
All Rights Reserved
Why do I sit here adding warmth to my sofa
Investing so much of myself in something so unappreciative
Why do I sit here making plans for more loafin'
When I got such good intentions and so much to give
I oughta sell all I got and buy a ticket to Peru
I oughta sit there and watch the greenery grow
And get my two pennies worth of MC squared
Don't you know, don't you know, I got
All kind-a potential, but I'm kinetically impaired
Why do I wonder that I lack emotion
I'm watching the world spin around me like I'm not really here
Why do I wonder how to start some motion
When I just need a little shove to get my life in gear
I oughta sell all I got and buy a ticket to Peru
I oughta sit there and watch the greenery grow
And get my two pennies worth of MC squared
Don't you know, don't you know, I got
All kind-a potential, but I'm kinetically impaired
I got all kind-a potential...
Why do I sit here in my indecision
I'd be better off going but it's so much safer to stay
Why do I sit here when I've got the vision
If I could rise from this sofa, you know I'd be on my way
I'm gonna sell all I got and buy a ticket to Peru
I'm gonna sit there and watch the greenery grow
And give my two pennies worth of MC squared
Don't you know, don't you know, I got
All kind-a potential, I got all kind-a potential
I got all kind-a potential
© Copyright 1998 Verlene Schermer/BMI
All Rights Reserved
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