Mountain Song -

You of jagged tooth collided plate

You of red earth ridge and your army of pines

You of clay and stone and craggy plain

Copper light on your maze of a spine

You of icy cold and scorching heat

Leaving us shaking shivering at your feet

Now I am miles away draw me deeper draw me deeper into

Wild places

I’m struggling to see can I stand upon your shoulders

I’m weak at the knees and I can’t breathe

Oh what a view from where you stand

You of hidden caves and crumbling cliff

You of swallowed path and an uphill climb

You of pebbled slope and shifting ways

Shadowing white washed walls on your land

They of foreign tongue and furtive glance

Working hands tanning in the sun

Now I am miles away draw me deeper draw me deeper into

Wild places

I’m struggling to see can I stand upon your shoulders

I’m weak at the knees and I can’t breathe

Oh what a view from where you stand

Oh what a view from where you stand

I’m struggling to see can I stand upon your shoulders

I’m weak at the knees and I can’t breathe

Oh what a view from where you stand