Fault Line Yodel

Somewhere between the summit and the stone She called back to herself alone I climbed the fault line barefoot Read the limestone like a page The falcons circled overhead The canyon held my gaze My grandmother yodeled to the valley The valley yodeled back I never knew a mountain Could teach you how to crack Open up your throat now Let the hollow take the sound What goes up comes back to you From somewhere underground Yo-ho-LAY-ee — oh-LAY-ee-oh Lay — lay — lay — ee — The mountain calls me home Yo-ho-LAY-ee — oh-LAY-ee-oh (echo) Across the fault — across the stone Down — down — down — Into utopia I watched a thrush on basalt Navigate by magnetic pull The strata sang in frequencies Too low for ears but full Every yodel has a geology A pressure and a seam The sound breaks open canyons That you only find in dreams Open up your throat now Let the hollow take the sound What goes up comes back to you From somewhere underground Yo-ho-LAY-ee — oh-LAY-ee-oh Lay — lay — lay — ee — The mountain calls me home Yo-ho-LAY-ee — oh-LAY-ee-oh Across the fault — across the stone Down — down — down — Into utopia The alphorn remembers Every echo that passed through it She stood on the ridge line And she gave it everything The birds rose in formation Like the mountain was breathing This is utopia — The voice that keeps returning The summit drops away The valley opens wide Yo — yo — yo — The fault line — sings Yo-ho-LAY-ee — oh-LAY-ee-oh The mountain calls me home Yo-ho-LAY-ee — oh-LAY-ee-oh Across the fault — across the stone Down into the deep now Down into the dream now Lay — lay — lay — ee — Utopia — utopia — utopia She yodeled to the valley The valley never stopped Yo-ho... Lay-ee-oh...