The Edge of Knowing

Verse 1

Fog rolls in across the fence line

Two paths carved in fading clay

One bends left toward the river

The other climbs the hillside grey

I stood there with my coat unbuttoned

Feeling every passing year

Both roads whispered like two voices

Both were calling me from here

Pre-Chorus

And I could turn toward the water

Or I could chase the open sky

But the choice was never simple

When the morning asked me why

Chorus

Two roads and a traveller

Standing at the edge of knowing

Two roads and a traveller

Every step is going somewhere slow

Somewhere small

Somewhere I will never know

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Verse 2

I walked the left one just a moment

Felt the stones against my shoe

Then I doubled back and paused there

Wondering what the right one knew

Moss was heavy on the low wall

Sunlight cut the birches thin

I could hear my own heart ticking

Counting all the ways to begin

Pre-Chorus

And I could stay here frozen

With one foot in each direction

But the day was growing longer

And the road was my reflection

Chorus

Two roads and a traveller

Standing at the edge of knowing

Two roads and a traveller

Every step is going somewhere slow

Somewhere small

Somewhere I will never know

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Bridge

I traced the map inside my pocket

Faded ink from somewhere else

Every line I'd drawn was trembling

Like a hand upon a shelf

And I thought about the strangers

Who had stood here just like me

Choosing left or right or neither

Drifting on so easily

Instrumental Break

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

I never really left the threshold

I'm still standing in that grey

The river never saw my shadow

The hillside never heard me say

That I was torn between two futures

That I'd made my peace with doubt

That the traveller kept on turning

Round and round and round about

Chorus

Two roads and a traveller

Standing at the edge of knowing

Two roads and a traveller

Every step is going somewhere slow

Somewhere small

Somewhere I will never know

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Outro

Two roads

Two roads

And the traveller

Never goes

Never goes

Never goes home