Watershed
- Emily Saliers
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 guardrail on the highway,
broken glass on the cement
A 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 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.
Well 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 spill
But ending up where i started
again makes me wanna stand still.
Stepping on a crack, breaking
up and looking back
Every tree limb overhead just
seems to sit and wait.
Until every step you take
becomes a twist of fate.