I've been writing in the book that your mother gave me Last Christmas I've had to take another look over my shoulder Again I'll climb up to the mountaintop Climb up to the mountaintop And I'll walk across the valleys For you It's lonely days and lonely nights That won't get no easier with you There's a sea of faces under the street light But if only they knew From the barns, to the backstreets To the bars of a cage They are free as a bird That sing them home to a new day Oh oh oh I'll climb up to the mountaintop Climb up to the mountaintop And I'll walk across the valleys For you Ooh, I will climb I'll climb And I'll walk I'll walk With you And I've been writing in the book that your mother gave me