Story Behind The Song

I was thinking about how life is like a voyage and as we get older we understand it more and when we finally "return" and know all the answers our life is over

Song Description

Song about the way life is like a voyage

Lyrics

I met an aged traveler, walking down Life's Road
He turned his weary eyes to me here's the story that he told
He said I've walked this road for many a mile, slowly gone insane
But I will be much wiser should I pass this way again

He said life is like a voyage we start when we are young
We don't realize how far we've gone till the day that we are done
On the day we're done we look back only to realize
The answers we were searching for were right there before our eyes
Right there before our very eyes were the answers that we sought
So many men die needlessly over demons that they've fought
The demons they were fighting for reasons misunderstood
Some of them were bad my friend but none of them were good
And when I was a younger man I'd roam from town to town
Climb the highest trees I could find just to take a look around
Now that I'm much older and I'm starting to feel the pain
I would be much wiser should I pass this way again

Hindsight's 20/20, that's what I've been told
My vision keeps getting clearer, as I walk back down Life's Road
I wonder as I wander, until my feet are aching
Only to find every footstep that I take falls on one, I've already taken

I left the aged traveler on the side of life's road
My mind was racing wildly from the story he'd just told
And as I walked away I thought, Hey I never got his name
But I would try and get it should I pass this way again
I would try and get it should I pass this way again