In the Way - Tift Merritt

The road ahead looks clear and straight from far away

Closer in, the weeds and briars grow in the way

Sometimes pressing through the shadows, I find a little shade

Sometimes my heart is all I got, sometimes my heart gets in the way

One day I’ll never be lonely.

Oh yeah, it will really be something

Turn around and nothing will be in my way.

Maybe it’s today.

I don’t see

nothing in the way

I know there is a short cut here we all know how to take

But something way down in my bones gets in the way

In the reaches, in the wanting, somewhere beyond names —

Where that river sings with all good things, put me right in the way

One day, I’ll never be lonely.

Oh yeah, it will really be something

Turn around and nothing will be in my way.

Clear as day.

I don’t see nothing in

the way