Follow Me (True Love is Harder to Find)

(C) Prodigal Daughter Music, BMI / Fox Lake Music, BMI

Words and Music by: Roger Alan Wade / Tom Grant

If I was a one man band would you follow me

Bring your cello and your poems and follow me

Down the highways of this land with no guarantees

Trust your faith to the wind and follow me

If my hands pushed a plow would you stand by me

Through the floods and the droughts, stand by me

Patch my worn out clothes and share my dreams

Brush your hair with sandalwood and stand by me

Truth ain’t some stone buried deep in the mountain

And love ain’t just roses and wine

Truth is a journey for one in ten thousand

And true love is even harder to find

If I sailed off to war would you wait for me

Stand on the shore and wave for me

With a lock of my hair pray my soul to keep

And if I was gone too long would you wait for me

And in my final hour would you pray for me

Close your eyes and holds my hand and pray for me

Light some candles now and then and keep my gravestone clean

Remember me to my children and pray for me

Ride Along

© 2012 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

What do you get working over time?

Working on that line is it happiness?

What is it all for? You’ve bought yourself a door

To a tight little room filled with emptiness

I know what it’s like to be tied down

So you focus on those stakes

And one by one you pull them out

Ride along, go find your peace in life

Where the only thing that can swallow you

Is that great big sky

Ride along, now what could go so wrong

Where the only thing that can follow you

Are the tears in your eyes?

It won’t be so bad, at least you won’t dry up

If there’s one thing that is certain man it’s loneliness

So don’t you get so mad, everyone trips up

The only thing it means is that you’ve hit the dust

So ride along…

I’ve Tried (I’m Dry)

© 2010 Hike the Stone, BMI / Whiskey Begonias, ASCAP

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher / Andrew R. Adkins

Can you hear me now?

I’ve been talking to you for an hour

I’ve tried

Are you listening?

I’m trying to tell you that I could never be the one

Though I’ve tried to keep you satisfied

Cold winds blow me away as I try to

Try to repay you for nothing, no nothing

Still you stare at the walls and expect me to

Take care of it all but I’m dry, Lord I’m dry

So are you with me now?

Please don’t you dare fall back inside

Please don’t you hide

If I thought it might, then I would stay to help you

Lead you blindly through this life

I have tried, but it’s your turn to fight

Leave the Rest Alone

© 2010 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

It appears we’re in a time of indecision

A time when most things just don’t feel right

In between the dawn and the collision

That seems inevitable yet just out of sight

 And it’s alright to feel a little uneasy

Or scared when something shows you to your soul

Just stand true as the times they are going to be changing

I don’t believe that we’re destined to lose control

Do you feel the storm a comin’?

Do we all feel the same?

Are we heading toward the places that we’ve already been?
Have we learned nothing

 as much as we’ve grown?

Love yourself, love your brothers

And leave the rest alone

It gets hard to see the good through all the evil

In the years when times are tough and war is nigh

When it feels wrong to shake the hand of a stranger

Then fear has won the devils delight

So that’s why you’ll find me smiling at you stranger

For together we’re much stronger than apart

If we’re all equal little parts of a much larger picture

We could pull ourselves together and heal the wounded hearts

Take You Home

© 2011 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

Now we could talk for hours about

The way things ought to be

The people and the places that we love

But tonight I want to get to know

Just how you feel for me

And show you all the things I’m thinking of

Uh-huh, I’m thinking of

For it’s all I can do to take my eyes off and hands away

From all the perfect parts of you I like

So if what your eyes are telling me is that you wouldn’t disagree

With doing something right no matter who says it’s wrong

Then I’d like to take you home with me tonight

If I only had a nickel for every time you’ve blown my mind

Or left me staring speechless into space

I might take you out to dinner or buy myself a little time

To find the way to gently make my case

Uh-huh, I’d make my case

For it’s all I can do to take control of the situation

Neither one of us seem all that strong

So if you think you could handle it I think we both could benefit

From doing something right, let them all say it’s wrong

‘Cause I’d love to take you home with me tonight

Soldier

© 2012 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

I’m coughing and I’m coughing, no rest can I get

For it’s “third tour of duty night” here in my head

I’m tied to my bed by a net of black ink

One string for each thought I’d rather not think

And I know it’s not something a soldier’s supposed to say

But I’m tired and I’ve had enough war

There’s corn outside my window in fall

Then come the winter, nothing at all

Spring brings a rain that cuts through my bones

That’s usually the time that I’m leaving home

I hope, dear God, that I’ve done nothing wrong

Please stand by my children until I can get home

Then if that is something you’ve got time to do

Please stand by me and my buddies too

Mountains of Montana

(C) 2012, Hike the Stone Music

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

I’m going back to the mountains of Montana

Back where my heart has never left

Back to the mountains of Montana

If I don’t go my soul will never rest

I don’t want to live in no flatlands

I’d done my share of that when I was a child

I’ve done my time in the South in the city, man ole man

I’d rather take my chances on the wild

Don’t bury me my friends in no graveyard

Don’t you lay me down in some forgotten tomb

Spread half my ashes down in Yellowstone

And toss the rest up high in the Beartooth Mountains

Hello Sky!

(C) 2010, Hike the Stone Music

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

I don’t know the reason for

The way that I’ve been acting

I guess I’ve just been hungry for

A little reaction

From the one that I hold closer than

A baby holds its mama when it’s scared

I wish I could explain away

Things I do, things I say

The way I skate in circles around

Every situation I can’t bare

So ‘till I’m there

Hello sky!  Welcome rain

Welcome anything that I could never change

Goodbye friends, you’ve sure been good to me

But until I learn to change my ways

Deserve the things that come my way

I’d rather find a hole and climb inside

I’ll keep on trying

Now I don’t need a reason for

The things that I’ve been after

Like a little more hope

A lot more laughter

I can tell you now the things I do

Aren’t hurting anybody if myself

I wish I could just melt away

Things that glue, things that stay

And set my wings a sailin’

O’r waters I was sure would never dry

But one more time

Freedom like the blood

That rushes steady through my veins

I can’t live without it

And without it we are so mundane

Again…

(C) 2011, Hike the Stone Music

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

She’s old enough to make her own decisions

Young enough to follow her heart

Cute enough to get whatever she wants

True enough not to play that part

Every night she gathers up her dreams

Meets the band and helps them load their things

Then writes a list of songs she’d rather not sing

Again…

Yes they were young when they first got married

Too young some might have said

And four years later it felt like they were buried

In too deep with too many kids

Every night they speak but they don’t talk much

And now and they make time but don’t make love

The way she feels just falls out in a song

Beautiful and clear but he just doesn’t hear

Again..

She turns the light and turns her thoughts inside

And she finally feels herself again tonight

But should she go to him and try to lie

She’d probably succeed but would rather not try

Again.

Mountains of Montana

(C) 2012, Hike the Stone Music

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

I’m going back to the mountains of Montana

Back where my heart has never left

Back to the mountains of Montana

If I don’t go my soul will never rest

I don’t want to live in no flatlands

I’d done my share of that when I was a child

I’ve done my time in the South in the city, man ole man

I’d rather take my chances on the wild

Don’t bury me my friends in no graveyard

Don’t you lay me down in some forgotten tomb

Spread half my ashes down in Yellowstone

And toss the rest up high in the Beartooth Mountains

Follow Me (True Love is Harder to Find)

(C) Prodigal Daughter Music, BMI / Fox Lake Music, BMI

Words and Music by: Roger Alan Wade / Tom Grant

If I was a one man band would you follow me

Bring your cello and your poems and follow me

Down the highways of this land with no guarantees

Trust your faith to the wind and follow me

If my hands pushed a plow would you stand by me

Through the floods and the droughts, stand by me

Patch my worn out clothes and share my dreams

Brush your hair with sandalwood and stand by me

Truth ain’t some stone buried deep in the mountain

And love ain’t just roses and wine

Truth is a journey for one in ten thousand

And true love is even harder to find

If I sailed off to war would you wait for me

Stand on the shore and wave for me

With a lock of my hair pray my soul to keep

And if I was gone too long would you wait for me

And in my final hour would you pray for me

Close your eyes and holds my hand and pray for me

Light some candles now and then and keep my gravestone clean

Remember me to my children and pray for me

Soldier

© 2012 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

I’m coughing and I’m coughing, no rest can I get

For it’s “third tour of duty night” here in my head

I’m tied to my bed by a net of black ink

One string for each thought I’d rather not think

And I know it’s not something a soldier’s supposed to say

But I’m tired and I’ve had enough war

There’s corn outside my window in fall

Then come the winter, nothing at all

Spring brings a rain that cuts through my bones

That’s usually the time that I’m leaving home

I hope, dear God, that I’ve done nothing wrong

Please stand by my children until I can get home

Then if that is something you’ve got time to do

Please stand by me and my buddies too

Ride Along

© 2012 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

What do you get working over time?

Working on that line is it happiness?

What is it all for? You’ve bought yourself a door

To a tight little room filled with emptiness

I know what it’s like to be tied down

So you focus on those stakes

And one by one you pull them out

Ride along, go find your peace in life

Where the only thing that can swallow you

Is that great big sky

Ride along, now what could go so wrong

Where the only thing that can follow you

Are the tears in your eyes?

It won’t be so bad, at least you won’t dry up

If there’s one thing that is certain man it’s loneliness

So don’t you get so mad, everyone trips up

The only thing it means is that you’ve hit the dust

So ride along…

What Does It Mean?

© 2011 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

What does it mean, what does it mean?

What does it mean to be in love?

What does it look like and how can you tell?

What does it mean to be in love?

Woke up this morning with this wondering in my brain

‘Round and ‘round in circles like the track of a toy train

And in between each lap the same face it did appear

Waving like a flag all of my joys and all my fears

What does it mean, what does it mean?

What does it mean to be in love?

What does it take and when will it give?

What does it mean to be in love?

Emotions, potions, oceans filled with creatures big and small

Laughing, crying, dying, trying hard to get along

Clustered flustered folks who falter riding the same fence

And binding it together a single word that makes no sense, so

What does it mean, what does it mean?

What does it mean to be in love?

Why does it hurt and how does it heal?

What does it mean to be in love?

So what makes it stand and why must we fall?

What does it mean to be in love?

I’ve Tried (I’m Dry)

© 2010 Hike the Stone, BMI / Whiskey Begonias, ASCAP

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher / Andrew R. Adkins

Can you hear me now?

I’ve been talking to you for an hour

I’ve tried

Are you listening?

I’m trying to tell you that I could never be the one

Though I’ve tried to keep you satisfied

Cold winds blow me away as I try to

Try to repay you for nothing, no nothing

Still you stare at the walls and expect me to

Take care of it all but I’m dry, Lord I’m dry

I’ve Tried (I’m Dry)

© 2010 Hike the Stone, BMI / Whiskey Begonias, ASCAP

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher / Andrew R. Adkins

Can you hear me now?

I’ve been talking to you for an hour

I’ve tried

Are you listening?

I’m trying to tell you that I could never be the one

Though I’ve tried to keep you satisfied

Cold winds blow me away as I try to

Try to repay you for nothing, no nothing

Still you stare at the walls and expect me to

Take care of it all but I’m dry, Lord I’m dry

So are you with me now?

Please don’t you dare fall back inside

Please don’t you hide

If I thought it might, then I would stay to help you

Lead you blindly through this life

I have tried, but it’s your turn to fight

So are you with me now?

Please don’t you dare fall back inside

Please don’t you hide

If I thought it might, then I would stay to help you

Lead you blindly through this life

I have tried, but it’s your turn to fight

Take You Home

© 2011 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

Now we could talk for hours about

The way things ought to be

The people and the places that we love

But tonight I want to get to know

Just how you feel for me

And show you all the things I’m thinking of

Uh-huh, I’m thinking of

For it’s all I can do to take my eyes off and hands away

From all the perfect parts of you I like

So if what your eyes are telling me is that you wouldn’t disagree

With doing something right no matter who says it’s wrong

Then I’d like to take you home with me tonight

If I only had a nickel for every time you’ve blown my mind

Or left me staring speechless into space

I might take you out to dinner or buy myself a little time

To find the way to gently make my case

Uh-huh, I’d make my case

For it’s all I can do to take control of the situation

Neither one of us seem all that strong

So if you think you could handle it I think we both could benefit

From doing something right, let them all say it’s wrong

‘Cause I’d love to take you home with me tonight

Sun

© 2012 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

It’s so disgraceful the way you’ve treated me

And so distasteful the way we’ve become

This time I’ve got to make a better

Decision ‘for I ride along

But the sun is shining

Though they clearly called for rain

It’s as if to say “who’s smiling now?”

And “no, no I will never go away

I’ll just choose when or not to come out”

So what to do with my disposition?

So what to do with my history?

Sometimes I feel I’ve got to let it all go

But there’s just got to be a foundation somewhere

But the sun is shining

Though they clearly called for rain

It’s as if to say “who’s smiling now?”

No, no I will never go away

I’ll just choose when or not to come out

Leave the Rest Alone

© 2010 Hike the Stone, BMI

Words and Music by: Daryl W. Dasher

It appears we’re in a time of indecision

A time when most things just don’t feel right

In between the dawn and the collision

That seems inevitable yet just out of sight

 And it’s alright to feel a little uneasy

Or scared when something shows you to your soul

Just stand true as the times they are going to be changing

I don’t believe that we’re destined to lose control

Do you feel the storm a comin’?

Do we all feel the same?

Are we heading toward the places that we’ve already been?
Have we learned nothing

 as much as we’ve grown?

Love yourself, love your brothers

And leave the rest alone

It gets hard to see the good through all the evil

In the years when times are tough and war is nigh

When it feels wrong to shake the hand of a stranger

Then fear has won the devils delight

So that’s why you’ll find me smiling at you stranger

For together we’re much stronger than apart

If we’re all equal little parts of a much larger picture

We could pull ourselves together and heal the wounded hearts

Lesson In Loneliness

(Jerry Bridges, Brian Epps)

Intro: E | E  (G A) | E | E (G A) | E | E |

VERSE 1:

                              D     A                                   E

I didn’t bring you roses, I didn’t kiss you goodnight

                             D           A                            E

I didn’t say that I love you, I didn’t hold you tight

                                D            A                                        E

You told me not to leave you, and if I did that you’d be gone

                                                D         A                                      E

I thought that you would still be here, you wouldn’t leave me alone

CHORUS:

                       D           A            E                      D              A          E

You gave me my first lesson in loneliness, and taught me how to cry

                 D      A           E                  G    A    E

You gave me a lesson I won’t forget even if I try

                       D            A               E                        D                            A         B

I should have held you closer and tried my best, to be there when you needed me

                 D       A          E                      G            A         E      G            A       E | E  (G A) | E | E

You gave me a lesson I won’t forget, a lesson in loneliness, a lesson in loneliness

VERSE 2:

Now I know how lonely feels, I was a fool for leaving you

These restless night are more than I can take, and these tears that fall are real

I can feel this pain inside, I feel cold and alone

So if this is how lonely feels, I can’t go on alone

REPEAT CHORUS:

D | A | E | E |

D        A                     E       D             A                       E

Mmmmmm… loneliness,  MmmmmHmmm… loneliness

Yesterdays

© 2007 Hike The Stone Music, BMI

Words & Music by Daryl Dasher

Yesterday, I wish it didn’t happen

But it did and now I’ll pay

And I’ll keep paying for all I’ve done Lord

Until all of my yesterdays are over

I don’t know

What’s become of my conscience

I don’t know what’s become of my life

I can just hope I get a few more tomorrows

To make everything all right

But tonight I’ve got this brand new roll of smoke

This bottle I can hide in

And when I’m through I’ll use it to dig myself this grave

That I will die in, but then again

Yesterday, I swear I didn’t mean to

Wake up there on the kitchen floor

And yesterday I swear I didn’t mean to hurt you

Bet I’ve said things before

I’ll think it over once again

I’ve got to get over this once again

And I’ll think it over once again 

Long Road Now

Words & Music by Daryl Dasher

© 2009 Hike The Stone Music, BMI

If two wrongs could make it right

Would it be well worth the fight?

Couldn’t two fools just get along?

It’s a long road now, a long road now

Could hunger really end hunger?

Could war really end war?

Wouldn’t we just ask for more

Further down the road? Further down the road

Hard times lead to immoralities

I’ll find peace inside of me

All signs may lead us towards a better road

Maybe sunshine to end rain

Maybe time can heal the shame

Wouldn’t it be sad if it were all in vein?

Further down the road?  Further down the road

It’s a long road now, a long road now.