Watershed

Nobody gives you a map of the ridge
You climb one mountain and you find the next
You follow the river to the fountainhead
Watershed

The tallest summit you look up to
Someday it's gonna look small to you
There's a new one coming into view
And you'll climb that too but before you do

You get time to stand looking off the ledge
Where the rivers branch to the east and the west
And to catch your breath at the sight of it
But the heights on which your heart was set
That you won so hard and then lost so fast
Are now somehow just silhouettes
You stop and bend in the light that's left
And you cup your hands in the riverbed

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And then you'll keep climbing step by step
By the grace of God and by your own sweat
And a river of tears that you won't forget
But you will forgive if you haven't yet
'Cause they carved the path
That you had to tread
And they'll do it again for the path ahead
And the heaven you seek is not separate
From the heart that speaks
When your cheeks are wet

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Nobody gave you a map of the ridge
You climbed one mountain
And you found the next
Followed the river to the fountainhead