Eddie From Ohio - Sahara lyrics

chris was no philosopher he was an ordinary man twenty-four and running out of room a rifle and a pack and a sack of rice on his back guided by Tolstoy and the moon into the Yukon he would go in search of a higher truth Christopher would make a break with this world but he never escaped his youth sahara will never be the south of france obvious with the rising sun if I had no home I'd build one in the sand if I didn't have a love I'd find me one if I didn't have a love I'd find me one four months alone in the ice and snow is a long way from Annandale locals and trappers and Eskimos knew better than to trust that trail at one with the earth he loved so well a retreat from the civilized hunger and emptiness took their toll chris mcandless pa**ed us by… Chorus