Ch 15: Summit Special (Yodel Joys)
Summit Special Verse 1 I reached the ridge at break of morning Where earth and sky began to meet The clouds were drifting through the valleys Like rivers flowing at my feet The wind that pushed against my shoulders Now carried songs from far below And every road I'd ever travelled Appeared in ways I'd never known Pre-Chorus The Isles, the seas, the distant kingdoms The towns I thought I'd left behind Lay like pages of a story Finally arranged in line Chorus And from the summit I could see The road was never wandering Every twist and every turning Was leading somewhere I could not see All the signs I thought had fooled me All the doors that would not yield Were threads within a greater pattern Sewn across the sky and field And I laughed into the morning Like a prisoner finally free YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! YODE-LAY-EE-AY! The mountain wasn't hiding something YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! The mountain helped me see Verse 2 I took the tinder from my pocket The pilgrims' gift from days before And lit a fire against the dawnlight Beside the summit's silent stone Then far below beyond the valleys A thread of smoke began to rise Answering the flame before me Like an echo to the sky Pre-Chorus And suddenly I saw the mountain In a way I'd never done The cave below was not a stopping place The cave itself was home Chorus And from the summit I could see The road was never wandering Every twist and every turning Was leading somewhere I could not see All the signs I thought had fooled me All the doors that would not yield Were threads within a greater pattern Sewn across the sky and field And I laughed into the morning Like a prisoner finally free YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! (echo from below) YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! YODE-LAY-EE-AY! The mountain wasn't hiding something YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! The mountain helped me see Bridge The treasure wasn't on the summit Nor buried underneath a stone It lived among the faithful footsteps Of those who made the journey home The lanterns glowed beside the pathways The cave breathed softly in the dawn And everything I thought was ending Turned out to have been going on The smoke below replied in silence The fire above replied the same And for a moment all the journey Seemed to speak my name Final Chorus And from the summit I could see Every loss and every question Had become part of the scenery Every doubt and every lesson Now shone brighter than before Not because they held the answers But they led me to the door And I laughed into the morning Like a prisoner finally free YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! YODE-LAY-EE-AY! YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! YODE-LAY-EE-AY! The mountain wasn't hiding something YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! The mountain helped me see The mountain helped me see YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO! The mountain helped me see YODE-LAY-EE-AY! The mountain helped me see Outro The smoke rose from the cave below The morning stretched across the land The road continued far beyond me Further than I'd ever planned And somehow That was enough YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO... (distant echo) YODE-LAY-EE-OOOO... (far away, almost lost in the clouds) YODE-LAY-EE-AY... [as the final echo fades, a faint mechanical drone begins somewhere beyond the clouds. The Zeppelin.]
