When I was a child,   I got lost in the woods   With my father.   Our best guesses failed;   We wound up on a trail   With no markers.      My little lamb,   The best-laid plans   Sometimes go astray.   Sometimes the land   Don't come with maps   To guide our way.      Your path is my path;   It leads me to where I am.   Follow the road   Wherever it goes   Until at last we're past   The edge of the map.      There's something out there.   There's something   Better than us both.   There's something unknown   But please don't fear it.      As I got older,   I wandered alone   In the darkness.   The lines on my palms   And a scatter of stars   For my compass.      I knew this land   Like the back of my hand,   But then it fell away.   And there where it ends   The lines on your hands   Show me another way.      Your path is my path;   It leads me to where I am.   Follow the road   Wherever it goes   Until at last--      Oh please   Don't guide me back;   Just lead me to where I'm at.   We'll follow the road   Wherever it goes   Until at last we're past   The edge of the map.