Ellis Paul - The Ballad Of Chris Mccandless lyrics

rate me

He was out on the highway smiling

A mystic in torn blue jeans

The kid left his trust fund to come out walking.

He hitched across this country

Backpack and a head full of dreams

Could've sworn he heard the earth a talking... talking

Sometimes, he said, don't it feel like the concrete's closing in?

We're putting bricks on the horizon

Was he chasing fool's gold... or a holy man walking a dirt road to the end?

I hitched a ride with Chris McCandless

Stepped in the wild of a dream

The horizon in South Dakota

Is an ocean of harvest grain

In a dusty silo we found work for the taking

We'd hitched up from California

But he never told me his real name

Never told me what past he was out here shaking

We're all shaking something...

Sometimes, he said, don't it feel like technology's closing in?

We're raising towers on the horizon

Was he chasing fool's gold... or a holy man walking a dirt road to the end?

I hitched a ride with Chris McCandless

Stepped in the wild of a dream

A stone... a path... a river of glass

The night sky... can you see stars from wherever you are?... wherever you

Are...

In a broken school bus they found him

In the heart of the Alaska range

The journey ends when the heart stops beating... time is fleeting

Was he chasing fool's gold,

Or a holy man walking a dirt road to the end?

I hitched a ride with Chris McCandless

Stepped in the wild with Chris McCandless

And I felt alive with Chris McCandless

I was wide awake in the dream... dream.