The Gleaner's Walk

Lyrics - The Gleaner's Walk

Verse 1

[plain, walking tempo] The road starts where the pavement ends and the gravel turns to ground that doesn't know it was a road I walk it anyway

Chorus

I pick up what the world let go a button and a wishbone I don't know what I'm looking for I only know I'm walking

Verse 2

[plain, accumulating] A feather and a photograph a key that opens nothing a coin from a country gone I put them in my pocket

Chorus

I pick up what the world let go a button and a wishbone I don't know what I'm looking for I only know I'm walking

Bridge

[slower, quieter, a pause in the walk] I stop in a field of cut wheat the stubble is gold in the light I lay the objects in a line and leave them there

Chorus

I pick up what the world let go a button and a wishbone I don't know what I'm looking for I only know I'm walking

Outro

[spoken, almost to herself] The road is not a road it's a door I'm walking through without stopping to open it