Follow The Ribbon

The day's been a while fading, seems like we have slowed
My eyes are getting weary, can barely see the road
Been a while since we left behind the city lights
There's just a line winding through the night

Yesterdays lie scattered, like broken swords and shields
Like the used up shells and bullets on a hundred battlefields
When I think of all the close calls, both sides of love and death
Sometimes I can hardly get my breath

But I'll follow the ribbon, anyhow
I'll follow the ribbon, that's all right for now
Up in the high country, or down where the river flows
Wherever it goes

Don't care if they like it, don't care if they don't
Never did much care about if they will or won't
If all you want to know is acorns, rootin' me a patch of Earth
What can you praise that's really anu worth?

I'm just living with the ringing of tomorrow's ancient rhymes
The road ahead may be shorter than the one we left behind
If there's whiskey in the bottle, leave some for me
I'll get to it, eventually

I'll follow the ribbon by the cold lagoon
Winding through the dark hills, where a million stars a-falls
Wherever it goes