When hawks glide underwater
and salmon replace the unborn
the forgotten will rise from the oceans
nests of kelp all strewn in their horns
and whispering
"Please take us back. Please take us back. We've learned our lessons."

And Kate will break in down here
without your seasons and fearless snow
and Kate will break in down here
without your seasons and fearless bones
and white fanged foreverness
bare footed wilderness
green tangled gills need rest
and we can be forever blessed
we can be forever blessed
if we take the back roads like you said
if we take the back roads

And here on this pile of shell
i call out to the pods all gathered like thunderheads
under-in our hands
crying with your songs like a peaceful death
please teach us release
teach me release

Cause' Kate will break in down here
without your seasons and fearless snow
and kate will break in down here
without your seasons and fearless bones
and white fanged foreverness
barefooted wilderness
green tangled gills need rest
and we can be forever blessed
we can be forever blessed
if we take the back roads like you said
if we take the back roads

And here on this pile of driftwood
i will carefully string up
stick by stick, thin by thick
bit by bit, rib by rib
rib by rib, rib by rib, rib by rib

Until a marble of you dances and chants
"in perfect balance take me back.
in perfect balance take me back.
i've learned my lesson."

And white fanged foreverness
barefooted wilderness
green tangled gills need rest
and we can be forever blessed
we can be forever blessed
if we take the back roads like you said
if we take the back roads