There was nothing left of me, boys Nothing left at all Just a shadow of a man Who had watched himself fall I rose up every morning To an empty, hollow day Said what good is this poor fool now What good is there to say Walk the miles, walk the miles One step at a time Through the hunger and the heartache Down the long and weary line Walk the miles, walk the miles 'Til your boots wear to the bone But the road is not the ruin, boys The road is taking you home I had lost my name and compass Lost my family and my ground No direction, no destination Just the wandering around Then I heard my grandfather's voice Cut through the hollow wind "Son, a man is only his word And without it he ain't nothing" So I took that word and walked it out With nothing in my hand Just a busted, broken promise Of becoming who I am Walk the miles, walk the miles One step at a time Through the hunger and the heartache Down the long and weary line Walk the miles, walk the miles 'Til your boots wear to the bone But the road is not the ruin, boys The road is taking you home And the miles they stacked like mountains And the water it ran thin I stopped trying for the next town I just prayed to reach the bend Then it wasn't for the bend, boys It was just for that one stone And the stone became one footfall And I dragged that step alone Just one step One more step One more step And I had come so far... Done so much... But I had missed it. I had missed the glory God spread across that road. The sunrise. The silence. The sacred. All of it drowned out by the weight on my back. The hunger. The pain. The thirst. The burden so loud I couldn't hear Him calling. Don't miss the miles, don't miss the miles Don't miss what God has sown Every stone and every sunrise Every mercy He has shown Walk the miles, walk the miles But lift your eyes to see The glory of the God who walks Those miles alongside thee You can walk great distances, brothers One single step at a time But if you lose the holy vision You'll arrive and still be blind So stop and see the wonder That He's scattered on the ground You're already where He called you You are finally found
