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WILD

She had the heart of a mountain lion
With gold rollin’ through her veins
She was a free spirit
Who did the things
I never had the guts to do
She finished a novel
In the month of November
She said I know the world thinks
It doesn’t need another one
But this is my truth
She’s riding with strangers in trucks
And drinking with them at camp sites
She’s got bugs crawlin’ on her
Talking tales by the light of the moon
While she casts out her fishing line
She says
This is the time I didn’t dance
This is the time I didn’t ask for a chance
This is the time I walked away
When I had so much left to say
This is the time I cried tears of joy
Inside that man there was a boy
Burn all those memories on a camp fire
I’ll go into the wild
The father’s failure to love his daughter
That’s the wildest thing of all, she says, at one point
It’s the wildest thing of all
To be an apple that falls from a tree
That doesn’t care where it falls
She says
This is the trip I didn’t take
This is the decision I didn’t make
This is the path I didn’t choose
This is the apology I couldn’t use
This is the time we almost kissed
This is the train I narrowly missed
Burn those memories on a camp fire
I’ll go into the wild
She visited the lake, it was majestic
She found the benefit in growing up without money
Because it gave her the bravery
To set out on a journey with nothin’ to lose
No hopes, no dreams
She burns her books
At the edge of a cliff
She walked 1,000 miles
With nothin’
The happiest person alive
She says
This is the time that won’t come back
These are the years we spent on the track
This is the time we floated for a while
Looking at the world with the eyes of a child
This is the sorrow, as deep as the sea
This is the stuff inside of me
Now that it’s out, can you feel it, too?
I know you can feel it, too
I’ll go into the wild

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from The Wolf at the Door, released June 7, 2018

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Ben Mish writes songs and performs them frequently.

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