Chorus Walking up the mountain And I got you by my side I got thunder in the valley And this bone-dry mountain high Walking up the mountain Climbing side by side Walking up the mountain, with you
In the Jemez Ponderosa where the pinons meet the sky And the hard as granite mountains meet the rain clouds flying by As you and I look out and see the world spread out below With different eyes and hearts and all the different things we know There are cars down on the highway, ten miles to the east See the glint of distant sunlight in the rat-tat dancing heat But to you, you see their faces and the failing lives they lead Then you wink at me and reckon there´s a way I might succeed
With you I´m never certain just exactly where I stand You scare me when you do the things I just can´t understand If I slow down you tell me that I´m moving up too fast If I speed up you tell me, slow down kid, you´ll never last When I ask you how to live my life, you laugh and ask me why You tell me I´d be better off to ask you how to die Come with me we´ll climb up through the sandstone to the sky Oh Yogi, son of Guru, come and see with your own eyes
As the rain fell on the mountain I saw every human life Has the value of a raindrop falling from the sky It don´t matter to the heavens just who lives or just who dies It don´t matter to the rainclouds where the rain falls from the sky. As the clouds blew off I saw the stars shining in the night In the trillion points of light I saw that each one had a life and if nothing seems to matter, tell me what´s a life to do He said the only thing that matters is the memory of you
I don´t know where we´re going, won´t you help me find the way You say it doesn´t matter cause we don´t know anyway We´ll walk back down the mountain, there beneath the setting sun See the time of evolution has only just begun. We´ve got thunder on the mountain and sunlight on the plains We´re always moving forward, never pass this way again With a smile and a wink you turn and walk away Oh Yogi, son of Guru, there´s still a chance you say Author: Guru Dass Singh