I've been chasing down the future And I've lived feels like, more than once or twice I've been trying to find the answers Now I know that youth is lost to make us wise The glory is in the climbing The story is in your cold and steely eyes It's all about the climbing Scratching and scraping just to face your fear of height Be careful not to climb too fast I've seen, far too much to forget You've been right there by my side (Through it all) To the outside you're small, you've been racing to get tall, but I know I know one day you'll reach, the peaks I never saw The glory is in the climbing The story is in your cold and steely eyes It's all about the climbing Scratching and scraping just to face our fear of heights Be careful not to climb too fast I've been holding my roses Hoping they won't wilt away But my garden seed's growing (but the garden keeps growing) Meant to bloom another day From the high seat, they are all breathtaking valleys But I still long for, the finite days down there But I know that the heights have taught me one thing Every peak that you reach, it's the climb that brought you there