Baba Brinkman - The Road Northwest lyrics

Dance, dance, dance down the road Observe the ancient code Of rhythm and flow I've been all across the map, but I'm always going back To the Pacific Northwest, cause that's where I rest at Plus, sometimes I soberly ask myself What's my backup plan in case of global collapse And I feel, it's not an over reaction, hell no Imagine a total absence of authority It's happened many times in the past historically With survivors fighting over scraps and acting horribly Maybe I shouldn't believe Cormack McCarthy But what's your plan to go back to Kansas, Dorothy When the grocery stores close their doors, but it isn't a civil war Just millions of poor and civilians beginning to starve with no energy source Could you pack your things and go live in the forest? Until the public trust wasn't so touch and go Could you provide for a tribe of 25 or so You better find a place where the wild mushrooms grow Where the bucks and does graze on the side of the roads Kinda sounds like a place that I grew up in though As anyone in British Columbia knows, West Coast The road Northwest On the road Observe the ancient code Of rhythm and flow Dance, dance, dance down the road But never let them steal your soul Go east And you'll find civilization's increasingly ancient, expansive land ma**es Palaces built on the ruins of sand castles Layer after layer of man's trappings Go west And you'll meet the limits of human advances Buildings get increasingly ramshackled With summers of abundance and winters of avalanches Wilderness that hits you right in the Adam's Apple Yeah, it's magical, it's a survivalist's dream With landlocked salmon spawning up wide crystal streams And forest as far as the eye can see Even when you climb to the peak of the highest tree Am I making sense, all I'm saying is 'Yes!' There's no place on this planet like the Canadian West And when climate change hits Me and my people might just make a nest And watch as civilization ends The road Northwest On the road Observe the ancient code Of rhythm and flow Dance, dance, dance down the road But never let them steal your soul Dance when you're broken, dance to atone Dance with your blood and dance with your bone Dance in the morning and in the afternoon Underneath the blazing sun, underneath the shining moon Dance for your father and for your son Dance for your momma 'til your sins are gone Dance for the dinosaurs who died long ago Dance for the leprechauns if there's hidden gold But if you wanna steal it then you can't be slow Look there's a rainbow, that's your road The road Northwest