The Road Not Taken Lyrics

The song The Road Not Taken is performed by Bruce Hornsby in the album named Here Come the Noise Makers in the year 2000 .



B. r. hornsby

Down in the southwest virginia town of richlands
I fell in love with an appalachian girl
She lived in a long line of little row houses
On the side of an old strip mining hill
She walked along on the jagged ridge
And looked as far as she could see
But the hills out there so up and down
You only see as far as the next big ridge

Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again

Oh the coal dust sttles on the window display
They have to change it about every other day
Some things never change way out here
An outsider could always remain that way
She walked along on the jagged ridge
She told me she was thinking of me
But every time I tried to take her away
She alway ran back to the rocks and the trees

Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again

Oh I went back there after many years
So curious and so secretly
As I looked on I held back a tear
The road not taken overcoming me
Oh I saw her she was sitting there
Older, thinner on the front porch
It seemed the light a little brighter there
Or maybe I still carried the forgotten torch

Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again



Bruce Hornsby - Here Come the Noise Makers

Oct 2000

  1. Piano Intro/Great Divide
  2. The Red Plains
  3. The Road Not Taken
  4. Lady With A Fan
  5. Stander On The Mountain
  6. Jacob's Ladder/Blackberry Blossom
  7. Piano Intro/I Loves You Porgy/Nocturne
  8. The Way It Is
  9. Twelve Tone Tune/King Of The Hill
  10. Spider Fingers/Tempus Fugit
  11. The Valley Road
  12. The End Of The Innocence
  13. Sunflower Cat/It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
  14. Mandolin Rain/Black Muddy River

The Road Not Taken