Words and music by Shawn Mullins



I've got a suitcase packed full of memories

and evening's drawing near

The mountain smiles upon me now

it's all down hill from here

an Anchorage of silence, a port of serenity

I had to bow and kneel before I ever

knew the real me But I understand for

the first time why I call you my home

like a free man running from himself

I had nowhere left to roam

There upon your mountains wading in your streams

like a distant star the city's far behind me

(Chorus)

and I ask you now will you take me in

because I never knew what I had till it was gone

I have to sing my song there's no letting go

Just can't stop the show This is where I belong



Now it's 0500 on a Monday morn

under a starry sky with old Iron Mike looking

over me and the sleep still in my eyes

So wrap yourself around me now and hold me

till the sun rises and another day's begun