[Verse 1]

So I'll buy a beat up four-door

Drive it 'till it's dead

Leave it on some stretch of highway

Make 'em wonder where I went

Then I'll walk until my feet tell me they can't walk anymore

I'll find a big old mountain

Sit up there for days

Let the buzzards think I'm dying

Circle around my early grave

But I'm living so much higher than I've ever lived before

[Chorus]

Lay a map down on the table

Point out where I wanna go

See the California Redwoods

Or the Mississippi flow

See the bears up in the Yukon

Ask 'еm how they weather thе cold

[Verse 2]

I'll walk down to a barrow

Start shaking hands with the people spending time

How they want it to be spent

And I'll hear about their mothers, brothers, sisters, and their friends

There's this couple out in Raleigh

So much life behind their eyes

And their love is like a boulder

Couldn't break it if you tried

So I'll listen to 'em singing

Until I feel like myself again

[Chorus]

Lay a map down on the table

Point out where I wanna go

See the California Redwoods

Or the Mississippi flow

See the bears up in the Yukon

Ask 'em how they weather the cold

[Bridge]

You can spend your whole life talking

To people who don't care

You can build yourself a castle

Just sit up there

Til the money makes you lonely

And the walls start closing in

[Chorus]

Lay a map down on the table

Point out where I wanna go

See the California Redwoods

Or the Mississippi flow

See the bears up in the Yukon

Ask 'em how they weather the cold

See the Arizona desert

Or the snowy Vermont hills

See the peregrine in Michigan and tell them how I feel

See the white tail deer running through the fields of my childhood home