Lord of this house from which shone a little light
Won't you give me shelter for just one lonely night
I am a traveler, I am weary
It's hard to see clearly
Won't you have a little pity on my plight
It's been many months since I've been home
I fear that I will die alone
Never again lay my head upon her shore
Where the sun shone warm and bright
She held me every night
I had no crime to answer for
And if sometime you find
Yourself a traveler
The terrain that remains
Don't even seem to matter
You whistle down the wind at the whims old coals and fortune tellers
Tell my love I never did forget her
And I know I never should have left her
Been to types of mountains
Sang directly to the clouds
I've heard them whisper back to me my name
And they spoke with such a cadence
Though the birds themselves arranged it
They spell for me out my sorrows with rain
I drank from crystal fountains, slipped on damp and dirty ground
I finally made my peace with the Earth while I lay
And the creatures of the Earth will be here last as they were first
They're gonna greet me with the breaking of each day
And if sometime you find
Yourself a traveler
The terrain that remains
Don't even seem to matter
You whistle down the wind at the whims old coals and fortune tellers
Tell my love I never did forget her
And I know I never should have left her
No reason left to pray for God or the words I used to say
And I haven't got much faith left anyway
And each time I close my eyes
There her memory till lies
Urging to be back again someday
But to win I stumble along
The road in front of me is long
One day I will know where I went wrong
But tonight I am too tired
Chase the cold away with fire
Paying strangers back for their kindness with my song
And if sometime you find
Yourself a traveler
The terrain that remains
Don't even seem to matter
You whistle down the wind at the whims old coals and fortune tellers
Tell my love I never did forget her
And I know I never should have left her