Alice Lyrics - Defying Gravity - Wheeler Cheryl

Alice works the desk at the east bay hotel 

in grand marais, minnisota 

i came in one night, she said "i loved your show" 

we sat and talked on the sofa 

she's on her own since her husband passed away 

some surgeon screwed up, there's nothing left to say 

now she works this desk at night and the campground by day 

in a trailer by the lake until the summer blows away 

She read about the job in a camping magazine 

and home was just a reminder 

so she took the cat and dog, stored away her things, 

left the bleakness behind her 

even now through the ache of missing him 

she's filled with wonder and far from giving in 

she sees magic on the lake in the early morning light 

and talking books and telling tales we sat there half the night 

Chorus: 

and she said "the more i travel the more i wanna see 

my kids want some settled life for me 

i don't wanna move somewhere and grow old quietly 

and the more i travel, the more i wanna see" 

Well it's time to make a change, with winter in the wings 

and the east bay hotel made an offer 

but she doesn't really know, 'cause there's everywhere to go 

and there's everything that traveling has taught her 

moving marches down busy city streets 

fantastic people she's privileged to meet 

and she dreams about alaska, the snow so deep and white 

and that little town in texas where there's dancing every night 

Chorus: 

and she says "the more i travel the more i wanna see 

my kids want some settled life for me 

i don't wanna move somewhere and grow old quietly 

and the more i travel, the more i wanna see"