Traveler

Lord of this house from which shone a little light
 Won't you give me shelter for just one lonely night
 I am a traveler, I am weary
 It's hard to see clearly
 Won't you have a little pity on my plight
 It's been many months since I've been home
 I fear that I will die alone
 Never again lay my head upon her shore
 Where the sun shone warm and bright
 She held me every night
 I had no crime to answer for
 And if sometime you find
 Yourself a traveler
 The terrain that remains
 Don't even seem to matter
 You whistle down the wind at the whims old coals and fortune tellers
 Tell my love I never did forget her
 And I know I never should have left her
 Been to types of mountains
 Sang directly to the clouds
 I've heard them whisper back to me my name
 And they spoke with such a cadence
 Though the birds themselves arranged it
 They spell for me out my sorrows with rain
 I drank from crystal fountains, slipped on damp and dirty ground
 I finally made my peace with the Earth while I lay
 And the creatures of the Earth will be here last as they were first
 They're gonna greet me with the breaking of each day
 And if sometime you find
 Yourself a traveler
 The terrain that remains
 Don't even seem to matter
 You whistle down the wind at the whims old coals and fortune tellers
 Tell my love I never did forget her
 And I know I never should have left her
 No reason left to pray for God or the words I used to say
 And I haven't got much faith left anyway
 And each time I close my eyes
 There her memory till lies
 Urging to be back again someday
 But to win I stumble along
 The road in front of me is long
 One day I will know where I went wrong
 But tonight I am too tired
 Chase the cold away with fire
 Paying strangers back for their kindness with my song
 And if sometime you find
 Yourself a traveler
 The terrain that remains
 Don't even seem to matter
 You whistle down the wind at the whims old coals and fortune tellers
 Tell my love I never did forget her
 And I know I never should have left her