Long Way Down

One time I shook hands with a pirate

He gave me a map to all his gold

After a lifetime I finally found it

By then I was too old to bring it home

It was a long way down

On a snowy night in late December

I set out to find some mistletoe

She had promised me all kinds of kisses

None of them were worth the bones I broke

It was a long way down

Long way to fall to have nobody catch ya

Long way to call to have nobody answer

Long walk home if you don't know the mountain roads

One night while playing in a graveyard

Somebody's hand reached up and grabbed my leg

It was my dearly departed grandpa

He said, "I bet you thought that I was dead

I was just a long way down"

And on the night before the day that I got married

The old man said "Hey listen to me son

Make sure you wanna hold that girl forever

'Cause once you say I do you gotta do it 'til it's done

It's a long way down"

Long way to fall to have nobody catch ya

Long way to call to have nobody answer

Long walk home if you don't know the mountain roads

It's a long fall down to Earth from Heaven

A long walk back to there from Hell

And sometimes the difference between them is hard to tell

One time I met a tree out in a forest

I said "Tree I wanna be as big as you"

He said "Boy I wish you never had've found me

'Cause that means that lumberjack can find me too

And it's a long way down"