I thought I'd do something big
Maybe I still will.
A big mistake
Or a bigwig
Rubbing shoulders
The wrong way.
I thought I'd go somewhere
Traveling all this way
I thought it seemed only fair
But it feels like
I took a hike
To nowhere.
Feels like I'm stranded here
No way home
Sick to the teeth
Soaked to the bone
No charge left
On my phone
Just the long road
Alone.
I thought things through
Maybe too much
Letting chances go
Feeling out of touch.
Drifting off to sea
In dreams and nightmares
Taking refuge wherever,
Taking pride
Before a fall.
Feels like I'm stranded here
No way home
Sick to the teeth
Soaked to the bone
No charge left
On my phone
Just the long road
Alone.
Someday I might return
To this island I have left
To where I pitched my tent
And watched the fire burn
For though I was at sea,
Washed up,
Drenched and cold,
I felt the earth move;
I had no place else to be
Feels like I'm stranded here
No way home
Sick to the teeth
Soaked to the bone
A man cannot live
On bread and wine
Alone.
credits
from Follow the Dawn,
released July 5, 2013
Words and music by Neil Burns
The soundtrack to the award-winning film “Freeland” functions beautifully as an album in its own right, with stark, evocative instrumentals. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2021