Chris Plemons - Medicine Bow Lyrics

Sittin' at a quick lube in some town I barely know
Just another map dot of a life spent on the go
Waitin' in the lounge, I let my mind drift away
Lookin' for some kind of sign, a small escape from the day
Bell above the door rings, snaps me back to reality
A daydream cut short this time, but I know where I need to be
I wanna cross a basin where the wildflowers grow
See the granite peaks above, covered by the late spring snow
I need to smell those lodgepole pines, and feel a fish hit on my line
The only place I wanna go, take me to the Medicine Bow
Spent the last nine years makin' my paycheck on the road
Each day a new horizon in a different postal code
It's Anchorage in June, with that never-settin' sun
Or midnight in Arizona, ninety miles from any one
Carries on the wind, a lonesome howl to keep me goin'
No matter where the highway leads, it calls me back to Wyoming
I wanna cross a basin where the wildflowers grow
See the granite peaks above, covered by the late spring snow
I need to smell those lodgepole pines, and feel a fish hit on my line
The only place I wanna go, take me to the Medicine Bow
On the road, but I'm headed west for some mountain therapy
Feel the air, I'm almost there, forty miles past Laramie
Now I'm crossin' that basin where the wildflowers grow
I can see the granite peaks covered by the late spring snow
Sittin' on an old lodgepole pine, alpine lake trout on my line
Just one place I wanna go, the only one that feeds my soul
Heaven on earth I know, here in the Medicine Bow
Here in the Medicine Bow
Here in the Medicine Bow