Long Way Down

One time I shook hands with a pirate

He gave me a map to all his gold

After a lifetime I finally found it

By then I was too old to bring it home

It was a long way down

On a snowy night in late December

I set out to find some mistletoe

She had promised me all kinds of kisses

None of them were worth the bones I broke

It was a long way down

Long way to fall to have nobobdy catch you

Long way to call to have nobody answer

Long walk home if you don't know the mountain roads

One night while playing in a graveyard

Somebody's hand reached up and grabbed my leg

It was my dearly departed grandpa

He said I bet you thought that I was dead

I was just long way down

It's on the night before the day that I got married

An old man said hey, listen to me, son

Make sure you wanna hold that girl forever

Cause once you say I do you gotta do until it's done

And it's a long way down

Long way to fall to have nobobdy catch you

Long way to call to have nobody answer

Long walk home if you don't know the mountain roads

It's a long fall down to earth from heaven

A long walk back to there from here

And sometimes the difference between them is hard to tell

One time I met a tree out in the forest

I said tree, I wanna be as big as you

He said boy, I wish you never had found me

Cause that means that lumberjack can find me too

It's a long way down