Mountains To The Sea

Mountains To The Sea

This song is on Dan Fogelberg's 4 CD Box Set "Portrait" released in 1997-I bought it when it was released but don't have it now
(Recorded 1991)
Dan Fogelberg - guitar, piano, keyboards, cymbals, vocals
Produced by Dan Fogelberg
Recorded at Mountain Bird Studios, Colorado

Well, I spent two days in traveling the mountains to the sea
I knew the change would do me good and set my spirit free
I spent two nights in wondering what it is you've done to me
Before an answer came I reached the sea

Here I spend my days in wandering the reaches and the reefs
And my soul becomes so quiet I can hear my own beliefs
I sail out on the ocean 'til I cannot see the land
And I wonder if you'll ever understand

Why a soul with so much heaven held should ever feel so damned
And why it's always so uncomfortable to hold another's hand
Why of late I feel myself a ship out to sea unmanned
I wonder if you'll ever understand

There are seagulls in the morning here, I watch them search and soar
As they dive to take the fishes that swim just beyond the shore
Then they fly off in the distance 'til they finally fade from view
Somehow, they remind me so of you

There's so many things you need to learn that I can never teach
And places in your troubled soul that I may never reach
So I wander like an ebbing tide along this lonely beach
And cast my dreams like stones into the sea

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~