The Greater Good - Trey Anastasio

Sometimes for the greater good

I do what I know I should

But even so it often seems

That what I should is ill-conceived

There was a time when what went wrong

Was closely tied to who’d belong

In lifeboat seats that fill up fast

Musical chairs for real at last

There’s a place inside your eye

Where I could never hope to be

Yet I’m sure you always see

A less than perfect side of me

There’s a time when boundaries fade

And marchers lead their own parade

Ignoring 'go's and stops and yields

While patient crowds still line the fields

There’s a place we always go

And though we plan to take it slow

It feels we just arrive and then

We blink and have to leave again

There’s a place inside my mind

Where this is all completely fine

That’s a place I’ve never been

And never hope to go again

Never hope to go again

I never hope to go again

Never hope to go again

Sometimes for the greater good

I do what I know I should

Sometimes for the greater good

I do what I know I should