You restless soul, you're gonna find it.

Whenever this Daniel Johnston song comes up on a mix CD I've made, I end up playing it over and over. Sparklehorse and The Flaming Lips do a gorgeous arrangement of it, of course, but Daniel's simple, sweet lyrics are the beautiful heart of it. If I'm remembering right, he wrote this for his best friend when the friend fell in love with Daniel's ex-girlfriend. So this song is Daniel giving them his blessing.

GO

So you think you've found the one

And she knows just how you feel

And you say that she's for real and she's fun

Well, that's all well and good

That's just the way it should be

To understand and be understood is to be free

So I think that you should go

Go on ahead

Take her in your arms and be wed

Go go go go you restless soul, you're going to find it

Go go go go you restless soul, you're going to find it

Yes, life's a bowl of cherries

You can have as many as you can carry

And someone once said that life is like a cow

But I don't know how that applies

But anyhow here we are all on this planet

Taking everything for granted

But I think you've caught on to something

Don't let go

Go go go go you restless soul, you're going to find it

Go go go go you restless soul, you're going to find it

Oh, yes you did, you found it

Oh, yes you did, you found it

Oh, yes you did, you found it.



(Lyrics via RejectedUnknown.com)