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Songs for the Road

Waking Up Again

Rain, salt, trees and open roads return a screen-weary mind to the living scale of the world.

Folk-soul · open-air · restorative · quietly soaringLyrics by Thomas LukaschewskiOriginal language: English

Verse 1

We'd lived too long inside the smaller view,
Where every day wore yesterday's disguise.
Then morning broke the old familiar blue,
And put the earth back plainly in our eyes.

A train, a road, a forest after rain,
The kind of light no screen can understand.
We didn't need the world to start again,
Only to feel it breathing in our hands.

Pre-Chorus

The miles moved through us softly,
Like a truth we didn't seek.
And all the noise we carried
Lost the language it could speak.

Chorus

Oh, the world was wide again,
With the sunlight in the leaves.
We had dust upon our shoes,
We had salt upon our sleeves.

And I swear the whole day rang,
Like a bell beneath the skin.
We were nowhere, we were there,
We were waking up again.

Verse 2

We slept beneath the turning of the trees,
With morning coming blue across the ground.
My jacket smelled of rain and salt and leaves,
The kind of life we get when we're not found.

We followed paths that had no need to end,
Past crooked gates and houses by the sea.
And every stranger almost felt like friend,
In all that open ordinary green.

Pre-Chorus 2

Some old blood woke inside us,
Where the branches met the sky.
And the little things that owned us
Looked too small to justify.

Chorus

Oh, the world was wide again,
With the sunlight in the leaves.
We had dust upon our shoes,
We had salt upon our sleeves.

And I swear the whole day rang,
Like a bell beneath the skin.
We were nowhere, we were there,
We were waking up again.

Bridge

The wild does not explain itself,
It only stands and lets us feel
How thin the walls around us were,
How much of life was always real.

And long after the bags are gone,
The mind goes back there when it bends:
To trees that made our fears look small,
To roads that taught the world again.

Final Chorus

Oh, the world was wide again,
With the sunlight in the leaves.
So go where life is not a thought,
But something you can breathe.

Go find the salt upon your sleeves,
Go lose your name in rain.
The world is waiting quietly
To make you real again.

© Traveler’s Mindset · Lyrics by Thomas Lukaschewski

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