Alex Detweiler - Headwater lyrics

Walking through the mountains above a town that I’ve never seen before. Sleeping in a house with no real rafters and a zipper on the door. The morning air is freezing but the scenery is making my blood boil. Though everyday I’m closer to the end my heart is never going home. Oh, will I ever return? I recalled fire of the desert like living on the sun and walking over ridges crossing rivers where the mighty Merced runs. I’ve walked so many miles and I am tired but don’t let this be done and though it’s been forever I feel the trail of life has finally begun. So take me back to all places where the living’s always free, where the wanderers and artists and the lost dogs used to be, where the days go by so fast but take so long. Where the distance is longer but the miles seem to shrink where the earth and the horizon and the treetops always meet, it's enough to be alive and no one’s wrong but you can’t stay lone. No, you can’t stay lone. Pushing off the earth and rising slowly out of every valley floor and soaking in the sky without pine glaciers even birds rarely explore. Time in time again the climb seems endless like why I do this for. While then my body heard now it’s the heartache that I really can’t ignore. Oh, will I ever return? If I do it I 'll come home. So take me back to all places where the living’s always free, where the wanderers and artists and the lost dogs used to be, where the days go by so fast but take so long. Where the distance is longer but the miles seem to shrink where the earth and the horizon and the treetops always meet, it's enough to be alive and no one’s wrong but you can’t stay lone. No, you can’t stay lone. Oh, will I ever return?