[Verse 1]
The creek ran black beneath the cedar limbs
My last match drowned in the pocket of my coat
I tied my pack beneath a leaning pine
And watched the ridge erase the trail I’d known

[Pre-Chorus]
I counted what I had: a blade, a tin
A strip of cloth, a compass turning slow
Then heard the cold wind crossing through the pass
And chose the way my feet could go

[Chorus]
I’ll make a fire from the heartwood split
I’ll drink where the clean spring cuts the stone
When the mountain takes the road from me
I’ll find another way back home
With every dawn I’m still here breathing
With every mile my hands grow strong
The wild can keep the map it gave me
I’ll keep moving on

[Verse 2]
I found dry needles under a rock shelf
And coaxed a coal alive against the rain
A rabbit track crossed fresh snow by the alder
I followed it to shelter from the gale

[Pre-Chorus]
The night pressed close, my fingers stiff and sore
I wrapped them tight and listened for the creek
The dark was wide, but morning had a shape
A pale line climbing up the peak

[Chorus]
I’ll make a fire from the heartwood split
I’ll drink where the clean spring cuts the stone
When the mountain takes the road from me
I’ll find another way back home
With every dawn I’m still here breathing
With every mile my hands grow strong
The wild can keep the map it gave me
I’ll keep moving on

[Bridge]
No promise in the weather
No favor from the sky
Just one more knot pulled tighter
Just one more pass to climb
And somewhere past the timber
A smoke thread in the blue
I set my shoulder to the wind
And let the ground lead through

[Final Chorus]
I built a fire from the heartwood split
I drank where the clean spring cut the stone
The mountain took the road I knew
I found another way back home
With every dawn I’m still here breathing
With every mile my hands grew strong
The wild can keep the map it gave me
I kept moving on

[Outro]
I kept moving on
I kept moving on