Older Than the Stones

Lyrics

These steps were carved before our names
By hands that worked through wind and rain
A thousand boots have smoothed the stone
On this old path we walk alone

The shrine gate stands against the sky
It watched a hundred years go by
And every soul that passed it through
Left something here for me and you

We are not the first to climb
We won't be the last in line

This mountain's older than the stones
Older than our flesh and bones
And when we're gone it will remain
Holding every joy and pain
Hey-oh, hey-oh
This mountain's older than our names
But it knows us all the same
Every pilgrim, every ghost
Walks beside us on this road
Hey-oh, hey-oh

I touched the moss on the old stone stair
And felt a hundred hands still there
The ones who prayed for rain and sun
The ones whose journeys never done

We added stones to the cairn up high
The way they did in times gone by
Two small stones on a mountain's chest
Two more travelers among the rest

We are not the first to climb
We won't be the last in line

This mountain's older than the stones
Older than our flesh and bones
And when we're gone it will remain
Holding every joy and pain
Hey-oh, hey-oh
This mountain's older than our names
But it knows us all the same
Every pilgrim, every ghost
Walks beside us on this road
Hey-oh, hey-oh

Someday someone else will climb
Through the pines and through the time
They will never know our names
But they'll walk our path the same

Ho-hey, ho-hey
We are part of the road
Ho-hey, ho-hey
We are part of the stone

This mountain's older than the stones
Older than our flesh and bones
And when we're gone it will remain
Holding every joy and pain
Hey-oh, hey-oh
This mountain's older than our names

Older than the stones...
Older than our names...