Thoroughfare Gap (Live)

Sometimes I consider

My pace

I'm reminded of a train

Gathering speed

For the climb to the pass

In whose shadow it already lies

A small metal dragon

Approaching the ever present ascending rise

To the Seventh Moutain

Reelin' and snakin' and leapin' it seems

Like it wants to come loose

From it's path cast in iron

But you can't slow down now

As the Earth has presented

A new crest to reach

Without barely a rest

From the last one

And you wonder

Just what lies beyond

Though you've been there before

And forget about

The effort and the strain

Always ascending

Each yard as a mile

To the never ending pull

Of the steepening grade

That's before you

A valley a forest

A desert a stream

With an over sized bridge

For the trickle there beneath

You remember the torrent

It turned to last Spring

From the snow's melting fast

And the river it became

In the summer

Perhaps it is ruin

From a fire that has scorched it

So badly that nothing

Will grow without rain

To wash away the blackened soil

Now useless 'til called upon again

In a future as distant and far away

As the next range of mountains

So take it as far

As you see and beyond

With eyes you don't use enough

To gather up strength

As Thoroughfare Gap

What awaits is whatever you see

When you get there

Or even before

It's no matter

No distance

It's the ride