Shell Game

How many times in the lonely night

Someone you'd like to know passed you by?

With half-held words a chance to speak

But too late - he's down the street

Cast off that shell

Don't resist the unknown

Your understandin' is open-handed

Hold it closed and you're alone

We chain ourselves with petty games

We build false walls with tight remains

To find a road that leads someplace

When we're passin' it everyday

Cast off that shell

Don't resist the unknown

Your understandin' is open-handed

Hold it closed and you're alone

To stand naked for the sun

When that's the awareness of everyone

To be open is to be free

To enclose is a channel be

Cast off that shell

Don't resist the unknown

Your understandin' is open-handed

Hold it closed and you're alone

So don't you wait until you're stranded

To ask somebody to throw a hand in

Just be there in your freeform patterns

The shackle games of life won't matter

Cast off that shell

Don't resist the unknown

Your understandin' is open-handed

Hold it closed and you're alone