From the recording 2. The Trek
The guitar for this song is tuned to a low-C balanced tuning. This "mystical folk-rock" song goes through many different chords (especially when compared to standard folk-rock songs). The chords used are: A#, Cm, C#, D, D#, E, F, Gm, G, and G#. I was deep into seeking spiritual enlightenment at the time that I wrote it.
Lyrics
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THE TREK
Michael Dyer
© 2006
A caravan of oxen lumber
slowly near the place where I have slumbered.
Can the morning’s semi-pace,
have encumbered me so soon?
As the crust my sore eyes hold in, opens,
rusting iron bells do toll in
the town I am to lose my soul in,
down the road.
Many days in lonely mountains,
with a sun-trekked path and the only sounds in my head,
of voices dead and companions lost,
long ago.
As I stand the hopeful gather.
They wail and kneel but it doesn’t matter.
With scattered souls running pitter-patter.
Seeking the blest,
but finding no rest.
Can the mystic nymph of laughter,
hold me back from the now and here-after?
Can the priestess, with a subtle kiss,
release me from this abyss?
Can the child-man sage’s vision,
come to one when one’s of age
And the grave and death’s derision let me go?
If so, I draw nearer and
I soon will know.