Silver Shoe (Original Song In Tribute to Chris McCandless)

Song I wrote after wandering on backroads in the White Mountains, inspired by Christopher McCandless. I captured all the images last year, mainly while poking about in said White Mountains. Lyrics:

Silver Shoe

You passed your seasons in a silver shoe
You're going to break out soon and when you do
You're going to find out what it means to walk away

You'll leave the others with a crack of glue
And find out what you've heard is true
Just a Ford bags books brains fear and a guitar too

You're going to drive out
You're going to find out
You're going to leave it
Like a dream that you once knew

It's going to break out
It's going to starburst out
It's going to ache you like a
Joy that you once knew

Your eyes swing wide in a cloud of blue
The Platonic mirrors they seem so new
Metaphors blooming with the sound of two pan flutes

You stop in the gloaming by a roadside dive
See the truss of the mountains as they gently rise
Like the breath you send to mingle with their height

You're going to drive out
You're going to find out
You're going to leave it
Like a dream that you once knew

It's going to break out
It's going to starburst out
It's going to ache you like a
Joy that you once knew

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• silver
• shoe
• original
• song
• folk
• country
• rock
• acoustic
• guitar
• john
• muir
• thoreau
• christopher
• mccandless
• plato
• emerson
• white
• mountains
• wandering

[BacksideGorilla]

i love this one. great guitar, great melody.

the backing vocals are fantastic. just made my favorites

[PavonineDream]

thanks -- sort of a granola head song, but glad it had crossover appeal for you.

[Harrysjm]

really nice song, you can tell it comes from deep within.

[PavonineDream]

thanks, man. really glad you liked it.

[OhimynameisGoaway]

Beautiful. like a dream that I once knew

[InuitAldebaran]

I enjoyed this a lot! Makes me feel younger. quite a lot. Thanks.

[jeremiahjrowe]

Very nice guitar playing.