Gonna leave this town

Find me a home

Somewhere deep in the mountains

In the corner of North Carolina

To the far flung reaches

In the fullness of time

To entertain a marriage

Of genius and the divine

Leap like a squirrel to another tree

Fly like a hawk far away

Far, far away

You can settle yourself for eternity

But the woodman’s axe is

At the root of all you see

The mockingbird tricked her again

The marriage unraveled

Split at thе seams

Turning a new leaf ovеr

Till I no longer remember

Wade in the shallows

Dive underneath

Dark as the frailest morning

Surely I’ll sink to the bottom

Leap like a squirrel to another tree

Fly like a hawk far away

Far, far away

I settled myself for eternity

But the woodman’s axe is

At the root of all you see

The mockingbird tricked me again