Appalachian Lyrics - Better Days - Shawn Mullins

I'd like to hike the appalachian 

I've tossed it around in my mind 

But then I say to myself 

Boy you must be crazy 

Don't you know you'll never have the time 

I'd like to go into the city 

Maybe travel for a while 

Hitch a ride, now there's something I can do 

But I've never been more than a mile 

And it might take forever 

But I am all I have to show 

There is a missing piece 

To find before I go 

Three words away from a masterpiece 

Ten thousand miles from my home 

And all my greed 

And three hungry mouths to feed 

I don't know if I can make it on my own 

And yet it's raining up on sharp top 

My spirit's molding me like clay 

I guess we should have built further from the river bank 

It's trying to wash us all away 

And it might take forever 

But we are all we have to show 

There is a missing piece 

To find before we go 

This morning's battle, population 

On the city street below 

And lord I dread to get up out of bed 

Five million footprints in the snow 

And it might take forever 

But I am all I have to show 

There is a missing piece 

To find before I go