I wanna be where you are, I've got be where you are, I've got to be where you are
A yound kid among the pack
The same place a hundred million other kids is at
The same type of face, and same type of stats.
He's trying to find his way, yeah he's trying to find his path
A new girl upon the set
She comes from california with sun up on her chest
Got all the boys up on her cause she's hotter than the rest.
He trying to get his weight up cause he's got to be the best
Yeah, so he can flex
So he started talking to her right
Wide eyes and words stumbling,
Asking for her name and her number
And wher she comming from and shit
But the girl saw something sweet
So she let him walk her home,
Had him in for a bite to eat
And they became friends, and later lovers
From after school specials, to rolling in the covers
And they be siting in the park, staring at the stars, thinking I just wanna be where you are.
I wanna be where you are, I've got be where you are, I've got to be where you are
And now the kid's growing up,
He's always in the gym
Playing ball, blowing up
He wanna play in college yeah he wanna throw it up
But still he need a scholarship cause money's slowing up
And the girl's growing too
She's trying to figure out exactly what she wants to do
She knows she want to be with him but she don't have a clue,
How she's gonna tell him she got in a different school, man it's cruel
But that's how life goes some times you know?
When one door closes, another opens, and lovers find themselves so far from what they know.
But they keep hope alive, and they'll keep trying, through all the lonely nights, the phone calls the crying.
He'll be on the courts just yearning for the ball while she'll be in her books just learning bout the law
And even though they're very far, they'll look up at the stars still thinking I just wanna be where you are
I wanna be where you are, I've got be where you are, I've got to be where you are
And now the kid's become a man.
He finished on his school and he's got a different plan
He had to leave the ball behind, he had to take a stand
He got a 9-to-5 because he wanna raise a fam'
And yo the girl's doing fine
She moved so far away, but she's always on his mind
She's caught up in her work and she's got a different guy
But still she missed the time when he would tell her that you're mine
Yeah she started crying
And so she called him up right one night and said:
"Where you are is where I wanna be, but where I gotta go, ain't even that close to where you're gonna be.
And I don't know what's in front of me.
I've got a lot of life to live before I stop running,
Still I remember times you were holding me.
You told me never let go, I wish I never let go.
So I sit alone in the park, staring at the stars, knowing I can never be where you are."
I wanna be where you are, I've got be where you are, I've got to be where you are