Mountain Man

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

'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

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

'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

Yeah, I'm just a valley on the way to a peak

He tells me I'm beautiful, but he'll never choose me

'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