She said when will those willows grow 

Old until the branches are barely missing 

The ground just by a few ol' inches 

I heard her whisper I bet they don't need nothing 

I took the trail less traveled by and now 

I hear them wishing I was with em' 

I ditched em' I switched to different back roads 

And I know that It made all the difference 

How do the old pines know when it's about to snow 

I see those evergreens as green as they could ever be 

it seems to me that truth doesn't die does it. 

He's gonna lay out a lie you thought he was kiddin well I didn't 

I know when I'm misinformed. 

I was born in a storm with no warmth so be warned 

Oh you know I be where they don't go 

I never step foot in a path to follow 

Ain't no shaking these bones unless they're resting and I'm passed and gone. 

I think that boy has got a right to know 

If he is walking blind into a gold mine 

Playing tricks upon his mind the whole time 

You ain't the only light that will shine in the dark darling 

It's time that you get up and go. To avoid the fall of a made ceiling secure walls are indeed but a great feeling. They're stealing wood to build a home for the wrong reason 

When you hear the venomous call you're gonna let it pass you on by won't ya 

run away why won't ya. 

Because your fence has blown far and the storm is in your front yard. 

The rain is trickling down and the house rots away any day now. And you know there are no replacements ol' girl better rise to the occasion 

Oh you know I be where they don't go 

I never step foot in a path to follow 

Ain't no shakin these bones unless they're resting and I'm passed and Gone 

I've been switching these ropes in hopes to find a place to call my own. 

I ain't lost I've always been home.

When I first found the path to the mountain 

I looked ahead and I saw my reflection 

With the songs and the passing clue above 

I'm an evening rambler down the way just searching 

And singing a sweet song of peace and love 

Just cause the blue sky is passing it doesn't mean that you have to go 

Well know the blue sky is crashing down 

And the great sound of life is crooked now 

I woke up one winter morning 

and I heard the songs that anyone would hear 

About the change just coming like you'd care 

Then I heard the notes of my transformation 

I looked up and you were standing there 

I went down to sweet old Kentucky 

That's where I heard the lonesome sound 

The one that resembles blame 

I opened my mind and I heard that realization 

That we're all just the same

If you had the urge to trust me 

Then let your words free right now 

Let them fall to the ground like the broken branch that I found 

from the old tree we used to climb on up and down, 

well all I found was my heart in the old pine missing the old times now. 

I ain't wasting my time just waiting on some kind of rule 

that says I shouldn’t bloom 

I ain't wastin my time on the sunshine 

When wildflowers bloom on their own in June just for you 

If you had the time to come and run with me 

Because that freedom we need some 

I feel like a bird without wings 

I've been dying to be flying but I'm shaking like a tambourine. 

If the robin sees my problems I'm hoping she could rob them away from me 

but all she found was my feet on some new ground leaving our home towns now 

I ain't wastin my time just waiting on some kind of rule 

that says I shouldn’t bloom 

I ain't wastin my time on the sunshine 

when wildflowers bloom on their own in June just for you. 

I know the land erodes away 

from rocks to river beds of ancient days 

and these patient ways will get is through the Fall. 

Down by the lagoon, where the fisherman leaves far too soon 

and his fortune will go running down the stream with hopes of reaching the sea

The robin flies through the sky 

And she tells me all the things that she sees 

But what she's sees oh no no it ain't good 

I guess nothing round here is gonna last 

And the truth doesn't come from the shadows of the past 

She sores over the mountains and she sores across the sky 

Oh she flies above your hometown and tells you how to cry 

She sores over the mountains and she sores across the sky 

Oh she flies above your hometown and tells you how to cry 

Well we fly across the ocean and no we can't find our way 

Through the dusk the dawn and far too of shore 

She sings me a song of what I did wrong 

But I didn't and I can't hear anymore 

Well the moon it drifts on by 

and all our dreams they didn't last 

The robin makes her way back to sweet stormy spring 

Oh the days come and go but they come far too fast 

The night roll along and all our dreams they never pass 

Well I know I know just where you've been 

Down by them rusted cars on a road of sin 

Where the dark roses tend to grow and you know you don't belong 

some inner demon has been chasing you for far too long. 

What about forbidden toxins just drag you on in. 

Are you not comfortable where you usual roam 

I see you’re driftin you're driftin you drift far from home. 

You whisper you whisper you whisper for so long. All along I saw that darkness escaping the dawn. you stood so close and I'm a ghost since you've been gone. 

I see I see where the dark river ends 

When your feet start dragging and the hillside spins 

Your mind is changing I know where you went wrong. 

When you started dancing and singing drinking songs. 

You've been gone for so long it's time to head on home. 

You're not with me cause you're with him and you’re with him until you're gone. 

You carry you carry oh hell you carry on 

You whisper you whisper you whisper for so long. 

All along I saw that darkness escaping the dawn. 

You stood so close and I'm a ghost since you've been gone. 

Well I saw six months of growing trees walking those back roads 

I sold all of my shoes to a mountain that just plateaued 

in the backwoods of Tennessee I need to be where my heart dove into 

but you can't go expecting a garden where you plant no food. 

Heading back mid westward crossing them state lines 

I had a few conflicting thoughts and they may cross at any time. 

Surrender to the truth son and you continue to roam 

you must remember your roots when pure a long way from home