Bitter Root

38 degrees, come and find me

On the top of the ridge where the sun will surely blind me

Further up the road where no one knows

About the secrets and the places that I'm hiding

It'll be winter soon, I don't know if I'll see you

In the mountains as they fade from green to blue

Damn, it's pretty here, and I don't think I'd fear

That it's possible I love them more than you

Oh, bitter root, I'm lost in you

And the places that I've known to go on to

You think I'm lost, baby, I am not

I just found the thing that everyone forgot

In the beauty of these bitter roots

If you need to know the truth, God damn it, I do

When that phone call that you made

Well, I was headed on my way

I was never gonna turn back, my heart is in these hills

And I won't turn my life away, in these mountains I will stay

Oh, bitter root, I'm lost in you

And the places that I've known to go on to

You think I'm lost, baby, I am not

I just found the thing that everyone forgot

In the beauty of these bitter roots