Appalachian

I'd like to hike the Appalachian

I've tossed it around in my mind

but then I say to myself

boy you must be crazy

don't you know you'll never have the time

I'd like to go into the city

maybe travel for a while

hitch a ride, now there's something I can do

but I've never been more than a mile

and it might take forever

but I am all I have to show

there is a missing piece

to find before I go

three words away from a masterpiece

ten thousand miles from my home

and all my greed

and three hungry mouths to feed

I don't know if I can make it on my own

and yet it's raining up on Sharp Top

my spirit's molding me like clay

I guess we should have built further from the river bank

it's trying to wash us all away

And it might take forever

but we are all we have to show

There is a missing piece

to find before we go

This morning's battle, population

on the city street below

And Lord I dread to get up out of bed

five million footprints in the snow

And it might take forever

but I am all I have to show

There is a missing piece

to find before I go