Caught in a race to get ahead
Our lives fall out of balance
And the choice made to find success
Start to get the best of us

The more we get the more we crave
And nothing satisfies
So it's time we quit this race
And look beyond

We search for substance
A fight to bring some meaning
To have our lives be more
Than a grain of sand lost on the beach
That's washed away with time's embrace

A fight to bring some meaning
To have our lives mean more
To have our actions bring a crucial change
That shakes the world

And the more we own the less we have
Because the things we buy just weigh us down
And distract us from the urgency
Of the deeper quest

We want our lives to stand for something
So we search for, we search for substance
We search for substance in our lives