Mountain Man

Lyrics

[Verse 1] He smells of woodsmoke and needles of pine There's dirt on those hands that'll hold me all night I run my cold fingers slow through his beard And I wonder if while he's dreaming he hears The wolf crying at that yellow moon 'Cause if he does he'll be leaving me soon [Chorus] 'Cause he's free like the river that runs And he needs fresh air in his lungs And he leaves whenever he comes To get back to thе sky and the land Oh, he's strong like thе rocks and the trees He belongs somewhere far away from me The kind of mysterious I'll never quite understand He's a mountain man [Verse 2] His bed is the grass, and his blanket's the stars He lets the wind sing while he plays his guitar Soon as I reach out to pull him in close The voice in the woods calls him to come home [Chorus] 'Cause he's free like the river that runs And he needs fresh air in his lungs And he leaves whenever he comes To get back to the sky and the land Oh, he's strong like the rocks and the trees He belongs somewhere far away from me The kind of mysterious I'll never quite understand He's a mountain man Mountain man [Bridge] Yeah, I'm just a valley on the way to a peak He tells me I'm beautiful but he'll never choose me [Chorus] 'Cause he's free like the river that runs And he needs fresh air in his lungs And he leaves whenever he comes To get back to the sky and the land Oh, he's strong like the rocks and the trees He belongs somewhere far away from me The kind of mysterious I'll never quite understand He's the kind of mysterious I'll never quite understand He's a mountain man He's a mountain man