Simple As This - Jake Bugg

I’ve been in search of stones

Making up the pavement of less-travelled roads

Mining for treasure deep in my bones

That I never find

Went looking for reverence

Tried to find it in a bottle

And came back again

High on a hash pipe of good intent

But it only brought me down

Tried institutions of the mind and soul

It only taught me what I should not know

Oh and the answer well who would have guessed

Could be something as simple as this

Something as simple as this

Travelled to each ocean’s end

Saw all seven wonders, trying to make some sense

Memorized the mantra Confucius said

But it only let me down

Tried absolution of the mind and soul

It only led me where I should not go

Oh and the answer well how could I miss

Something as simple as this

Something as simple as this

I’ve been falling, crashing, breaking

All the while you were stood here waiting

For me, girl

Tried liberation of my own free will

But it left me looking to get higher still

Oh and the answer, well, who would have guessed?

Could be something as simple as this

God knows how I could have missed

Something as simple as this