Thought I knew my mind
like the back of my hand
The gold and the rainbow and
nothing panned out as I planned
They say only milk and honey's
gonna make your soul satisfied
I better learn how to swim cause
the crossing is chilly and wide
Twisted guardrails on the highway broken glass on the cement
The ghost of someone's tragedy how recklessly my time has been spent
And they say that it's never too late but you don't, you don't get any younger
I better learn how to starve the emptiness and feed the hunger
Up on the watershed
standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies
get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face
the path at your pace
every choice is worth your while
And there's always retrospect
to light a clearer path
Every five years or so I look back on
my life and I have a good laugh
You start at the top, go full circle round catch a breeze take a spin
But ending up where I started again makes me want to stand still
Up on the watershed standing at the
fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies
get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face
the path at your pace
every choice is worth yourwhile
Stepping on a crack
breaking up and looking back
Every tree limb overhead
just seems to sit anyway
Till every step you take
becomes a twist of fate
Up on the watershed standing
at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies
so get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face
the path at your pace
every choice is worth your while
-Indigo Girls |
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