Sunday, September 14, 2008

Wildness going straight to the soul

I just had one of those moments... Listening to a song so perfectly written and hearing it for the 1,000x time it somehow pierced this time. As I get ready to go back into "the wild" tomorrow for a few glorious days... I never want to forget why it draws me back again and again... that love affair that just can't be explained. It's why I breath, why I live here, why I will never be able to get enough of LIFE in the wilderness.

When I walk beside her
I am the better man
When I look to leave her
I always stagger back again

Once I built an ivory tower
So I could worship from above
When I climb down to be set free
She took me in again

There's a big
A big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world

When she comes to greet me
She is mercy at my feet
I see her inner charm
She just throws it back at me

Once I dug an early grave
To find a better land
She just smiled and laughed at me
And took her rules back again

When I go to cross that river
She is comfort by my side
When I try to understand
She just opens up her hands

Once I stood to lose her
And I saw what I had done
Bowed down and threw away the hours
Of her garden and her sun

So I tried to want her
I turned to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights
And it's still coming down on me

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