Is the struggle and strife we find in this life Really worth while after all? I've been wishing today I could just runaway Out where the west winds call With someone like you, a pal good and true I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find Some place that's known to god alone Just a spot to call our own We'll find perfect peace, where joys never cease Out there beneath a kindly sky We'll build a sweet little nest somewhere in the west And let the rest of the world go by Is the future to hold just struggles for gold While the real world waits outside? Away out on the breast of the wonderful west Across the great divide With someone like you, a pal good and true I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find Some place that's known to god alone Just a spot to call our own We'll find perfect peace, where joys never cease Out there beneath a kindly sky We'll build a sweet little nest somewhere in the west And let the rest of the world go by