Slightly edited version of original by Andrew Skinner (streetecho)

Capo 1


[Verse 1]

                 
I've been in search of stones

Making up the pavement
            
Of less travelled roads
       
Mining for treasure deep in my bones
                     
That I never found

                
Went looking for reverence

Tried to find it in a bottle
        
& came back  again
     
High on a hashpipe of good intent
                          
But it only brought me down


[Chorus]

                         
Tried institutions of the mind and  soul
   
It only taught me what I
       
Should not  know
      
Oh and the answer well
              
Who would have guessed
                            
Could be something as simple as this
                           
Something as simple as this
 

[Verse 2]

                    
Travelled to each ocean’s end

Saw all 7 wonders,
               
Trying to make some sense
         
Memorised the mantra Confucius said
                     
But it only let me down

 
[Chorus]

                        
Tried absolutions of the mind and  soul
   
It only led me where I
      
Could not  go
      
Oh and the answer well
            
How could I miss
                     
Something as simple as this
                         
Something as simple as this


[Bridge]

               
I     been falling crashing breaking
        
And   all the while you were
     
Stood here waiting
       
For me girl

   (x2) |     


[Chorus]

                     
Tried liberation of my own free will
                          
But it left me looking to get higher still
      
Oh and the answer well
         
Who could have guessed
                            
Could be something as simple as this
                         
God knows how I could have missed
                       
Something as simple as this