So I'll buy a beat up four-door
Drive it 'till it's dead
Leave it on some stretch of highway
Make 'em wonder where I went
Then I'll walk until my feet tell me they can't walk anymore
I'll find a big old mountain
Sit up there for days
Let the buzzards think I'm dying
Circle around my early grave
But I'm living so much higher than I've ever lived before
Lay a map down on the table
Point out where I wanna go
See the California Redwoods
Or the Mississippi flow
See the bears up in the Yukon
Ask 'еm how they weather thе cold
I'll walk down to a barrow
Start shaking hands with the people spending time
How they want it to be spent
And I'll hear about their mothers, brothers, sisters, and their friends
There's this couple out in Raleigh
So much life behind their eyes
And their love is like a boulder
Couldn't break it if you tried
So I'll listen to 'em singing
Until I feel like myself again
Lay a map down on the table
Point out where I wanna go
See the California Redwoods
Or the Mississippi flow
See the bears up in the Yukon
Ask 'em how they weather the cold
You can spend your whole life talking
To people who don't care
You can build yourself a castle
Just sit up there
Til the money makes you lonely
And the walls start closing in
Lay a map down on the table
Point out where I wanna go
See the California Redwoods
Or the Mississippi flow
See the bears up in the Yukon
Ask 'em how they weather the cold
See the Arizona desert
Or the snowy Vermont hills
See the peregrine in Michigan and tell them how I feel
See the white tail deer running through the fields of my childhood home