Adventure - Rupert Holmes

Everywhere I turn, there are people just like me

All searching, desperately, for adventure

Risking life and limb in a million daring deeds

For everybody needs their adventure

But little do they know

There’s adventure in the eyes

Of a young and unknown love

On an unexpected street

Though you never meant to meet

You take hold of this surprise

And you learn each other’s name

Soon you’re in the game once again

And then…

Don’t get taken in by some made-up movie

Who copies what we are: we’re adventure

In a quiet day, you will find a sudden turn

To follow it, you’ll learn, is adventure

In a stranger’s face

In the corner of a smile

In a shop you’d never seen

In a street you’d thought you’d known

In a voice upon the phone

Who you accidentally dial …

There’s a hundred turns each day

Soon you’re on your way once again

And then …

And I stand in total awe at the simplest things that

People say and do

I think true adventure lies in the ins and outs of those

Like me and you