Lyrics

SEARCHING (Maria and Tony)
© 2009 Jacqueline Grace Lopez

VERSE 1;

I have grown
A picture of perfection, the way my momma wanted me:
So wise yet so naive.
And I have known
I've watched from a distance the joys and pains of love.
And I have seen enough

To lock my heart away.
I keep safe just in case someone can find a way.
To fail it in the end.
But soon will come the day.
That somebody honest will promise the world and succeed.
And that is all I need

CHORUS:

(now and then I think)
Just like Maria found her Tony
I'm searching for my one and only
He's gotta know how to really hold me
To take me away, away from this place

Far from the reach of my "west side story"
He's gotta break all the rules that control me
Help me escape to a night of our own.
Where the moon and stars are ours, forever.

VERSE 2:

Now I know
That not all is as simple as right, wrong or good enough.
Especially with love.
But you see,
My mind has been filled with the scenes I see on the movie screens.
An altered Reality.

Love's been glamorized.
But along with that its meaning devalued, price downsized.
No one really knows its worth
To have that one who respects you (echo), helps and protects you
You may say it's a fantasy, but I know if I hold it'll come to be, oh.

CHORUS

BRIDGE:

I'm not a hopeless romantic
I can't see what lies ahead
But in the back of my mind I can feel this is right,
Keeps me dreaming all day, leaves me sleepless at night.
I just pick the road to travel, the rest, I leave up to fate. And there's somebody who can relate, and that somebody may be the one for me.