Indigo Girls - Watershed lyrics

Thought I knew my mind<br>Like the back of my hand<br>The gold and the rainbow<br>But nothing panned out as I planned<br>And they say only milk and honey's<br>Gonna make your soul satisfied<br>Well I better learn how to swim<br>Cause the crossing is chilly and wide<br><br>Twisted guardrails on the highway<br>Broken glass on the cement<br>A ghost of someone's tragedy<br>How recklessly my time has been spent<br>They say that it's never too late<br>But you don't, you don't get any younger<br>Well I better learn how to starve the emptiness<br>And feed the hunger<br><br>Up on the watershed<br>Standing at the fork in the road<br>You can stand there and agonize<br>Till your agony's your heaviest load<br>You'll never fly as the crow flies<br>Get used to a country mile<br>When you're learning to face<br>The path at your pace<br>Every choice is worth your while<br><br>And there's always retrospect<br>(when you're looking back)<br>To light a clearer path<br>Every five years or so I look back on my life<br>And I have a good laugh<br>You start at the top<br>Go full circle round<br>Catch a breeze<br>Take a spill<br>But ending up where I started again<br>Makes me wanna stand still<br><br>Up on the watershed<br>Standing at the fork in the road<br>You can stand there and agonize<br>Till your agony's your heaviest load<br>You'll never fly as the crow flies<br>Get used to a country mile<br>When you're learning to face<br>The path at your pace<br>Every choice is worth your while<br><br>Stepping on a crack<br>Breaking up and looking back<br>Til every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait<br>Til every step you take becomes a twist of fate<br><br>Up on the watershed<br>Standing at the fork in the road<br>You can stand there and agonize<br>Till your agony's your heaviest load<br>You'll never fly as the crow flies<br>Get used to a country mile<br>When you're learning to face<br>The path at your pace<br>Every choice is worth your while<br><br>Up on the watershed<br>Standing at the fork in the road<br>You can stand there and agonize<br>Till your agony's your heaviest load<br>You'll never fly as the crow flies<br>Get used to a country mile<br>When you're learning to face<br>The path at your pace<br>Every choice is worth your while<br><br>And when you're learning to face<br>The path at your pace<br>Every choice is worth your while