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