The Road Not Taken (Live - 1998/99)

The Road Not Taken (Live - 1998/99) - Bruce Hornsby

Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands

I fell in love with an Appalachian girl

She lived in a long line of little row houses

On the side of an old strip mining hill

Oh she walked along on the jagged ridge

And looked as far as she could see

But the hills out there so up and down

You only see as far as the next big ridge

Every time I see her face

On the street in the hollow on the hill

Another time and another place

I feel her in my heart still

Every time I see her face

On the street in the hollow 'round the bend

I see her in my mind and then

I go down the road not taken again taken again

Oh the coal dust settles on the window display

Gotta change it about every other day

Oh some things never change way out here

But outsider could always remain that way

Oh she walked along on the jagged ridge

She told me she was sittin' there thinkin' of me

But every time I tried to take her away

She alway ran back to the rocks and the trees

Every time I see her face

On the street in the hollow on the hill

Another time and another place

I feel her in my heart still

Every time I see her face

On the street in the hollow 'round the bend

I see her in my mind and then

I go down the road not taken again

Oh not taken taken again not taken again

Oh I went back there after many years

Oh so so curious and so secretly

Oh as I looked on I held back a tear

Oh the road not taken overcoming me

Oh I saw her she was sittin' there

Older thinner on the front porch

It seemed the light a little brighter there

Or maybe I still carried the forgotten torch

Every time I see her face

On the street in the hollow on the hill

Another time and another place

I see her in my heart still

Every time I see her face

On the street in the hollow 'round the bend

I see her in my mind and then

I go down the road not taken again

Oh I go down the road not taken yeah

Taken again not taken taken again

Yeah yeah yeah