Mountains-Waters from Glimpses by Mark Perry

Mountains/Waters

You say you’re sorry, showing up a day late
Your sister said typical you, everybody waits
There’s your picture on the wall
On a mountain in Peru
He always said you did things
He could never do

There’s his old blue chair
Where you’d hear him say
he was afraid to leave
You were afraid to stay

The mountains we climb
The waters we cross
How did it feel
What it’d it cost
The mountains we climb
And the waters we cross

Your father’s world was dark
He always stuck to the plan
Disappointed when you ran off
In that Volkswagon van

It would have happened to you
If you decided to stay
You saw the future coming
And you ran the other way

Chorus

And you remember the nicotine stains
On his callused hands
And how fast he faded
When he was out of demand
Your sister says Hey are you gonna’ be okay
You sit in that old blue chair
And the light fades away

• Americana folk
• Folk
• singer-songwriter
• Smithers