Watershed - Owl's Head Mountain

Thought I knew my mind Like the back of my hand The gold and the rainbow But nothing panned out as I planned And they say only milk and honey's Gonna make your soul satisfied Well I better learn how to swim Cause the crossing is chilly and wide Twisted guardrails on the highway Broken glass on the cement A ghost of someone's tragedy How recklessly my time has been spent They say that it's never too late But you don't, you don't get any younger Well 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 (When you're looking back) 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 (Start at the top) Go full circle round Catch a breeze Take a spill But ending up where I started again Makes me wanna 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 your while Stepping on a crack Breaking up and looking back Till every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait Till every step you take becomes a twist of fate (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 Get used to a country mile When you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while 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 when you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while

Nobody gives you a map of the ridge You climb one mountain and you find the next You follow the river to the fountainhead Watershed The tallest summit you look up to Someday it's gonna look small to you There's a new one coming into view And you'll climb that too but before you do You get time to stand looking off the ledge Where the rivers branch to the east and the west And to catch your breath at the sight of it But the heights on which your heart was set That you won so hard and then lost so fast Are now somehow just silhouettes You stop and bend in the light that's left And you cup your hands in the riverbed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed And then you'll keep climbing step by step By the grace of God and by your own sweat And a river of tears that you won't forget But you will forgive if you haven't yet 'Cause they carved the path That you had to tread And they'll do it again for the path ahead And the heaven you seek is not separate From the heart that speaks When your cheeks are wet Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Nobody gave you a map of the ridge You climbed one mountain And you found the next Followed the river to the fountainhead