Barnum soundtrack – Cy Coleman & Michael Stweart - out There lyrics

Staying home, living day by day
May be safe, but it can't be duller.
Seeing things only black and grey
When the world is alive with color!
Doing just as your neighbors do
May be wise, but it ain't so clever.
Every man has a dream or two—
Let them go and they're gone forever!

Out there somewhere, just out of sight
There's a world that's blazing with light!
Ain't each man alive got the right
To stray just a mite from the straight and narrow,
Shoot through the night like a flaming arrow?

Turning back should the highway bend,
Turning down every chance you're given,
Takes the risk out of life but friend,
How the hell can you call that living?
Staying put in a pumpkin shell
Is a bleak and depressing habit.
There's a ring on a carousel
And its yours if you'll only grab it!

Out there somewhere, just down the line,
Lies a world of glory and shine!
One square foot there's gotta be mine!
Once in his life every man decides,
Once when he stands where the road divides,
Once on a hill as the morning grows,
Once, if he will, he can see those

Fires glow, Flags streaming,
Spires grow, Towers gleaming!
In a land where the dawn is clear,
In a sky where the sun's forever,
On a plain where it's spring all year,
And the dark of the night comes never,

Somewhere out there, just out of sight,
There’s a world that's blazing with light!
Ain't each man alive got the right,

Once in his life to forget the past,
Once in his life to behold at last
With his own two eyes, what lies out there!