Mountain Laurel Lyrics

Will I see the storm before the wind picks up

Will I finally get it right

Well, I don't stand a chance if I brave the night

Alone and burrowed in

Sleep outside to see the skies

As all that's green around me dies

I'm not one to hypothesize

It can't be a good sign at all

All overgrown with bittersweet and

Mountain laurel, eventually

A pretty tangle of defeat

A poison path, a wilted memory

If I can't see the moon through the evergreens

I'll hold tight, just trust it's there

And if there's not a sun to light our summer sky

Well I guess we'll know the dark

If I don't return then plant a tree and

Lay some flowers at its feet

Inscribe a plaque that says Finally Free

It Always Sucked Here Anyway

I hope to hell or god above

There's something to keep dreaming of

Peripheral, but never loved

A background noise or writing on a wall

When there comes a day where all lights dim low

And the sands of time lay still

I won't need to know how it all unfolds

If the wind stays at our back

We're all terrified of the lives we've got

In the shadow of our fate

And we may never glimpse the unknowable

In darkness or beyond

No, I don't have a place where those fears can lie

So you'll see them time to time