To Mount Sterling, With Love

There are doors I've never knocked on in Mount Sterling
There are doors I've never locked up the keys are too small
You're the pride of your mother, you're the pride of us all
You're the pride of your father, and you've gotten oh so tall

An icterid passed by in Mount Sterling
An icterid lighted on the corner of a wall
The spaces after speaking aren't the only things
That can bring me to my knees, that can make me fall

They sing the songs of ruin in Mount Sterling
Your hands are all knotted like the branches of a tree
Your roots run deep for the water that they bring
You're an orchard, you're a mountain, you're all I see

And I've been everything
That I will be
That I will be
And I've been everything
That I will be
That I will be

There's a time that you will know why the water frightens you
A day will come you'll know there's nothin' more to do
There's nothin' that I need that's not a bike ride away
There's nothin' that I see that could fill up the space

I pray that death will come as quietly as sleep
That feeling in my fingers is something I can't keep
I feel it on my heels, it makes my hands sore
I feel it in my knees long before the clouds pour

I'm reading anything I can get my hands on
You're a hurricane away, I won't take too long
I've heard of many places, I've heard of many things
I've heard you never know what the tide might bring

And I've been everything
That I will be
That I will be
And I've been everything
That I will be
That I will be
That I will be
That I will be