A trailhead waits in the moonlight there
as I race down a highway to escape my despair.
I go onward and forward and faster towards
the mountains that will bring me unseen rewards.

The forest glows by the light of the moon,
And an eerie presence prevails as I arrive too soon.
for the journey is what this place is about
the journey to myself where I can find out about

all the things that I’ve hidden deep within a soul of mine
‘coz I can’t bear to think of what I’ve lost in this life.
The world outside beckoned and these mountains called
And I welcome the challenge to ride them all.

There are moments of bliss and moments of joy
as I carve down the mountain, a gleeful little boy.
Perhaps just a past-time, no, much more than that:
It is an eternity in each moment, you can’t take away that.

For gravity and focus, flow and arcing turns,
something I long for and will forever yearn.
The bicycle’s freedom, and my soul thus restored,
keeps bringing me back for more and for more.

And I’ll take on the challenge and I’m ready now
And I’ll be there tomorrow as the mountains arouse
within me a spirit that I’ve not know before
within me the key to open this door

To another world beyond the moments of my soul
To where I can feel once again whole.
It is just a pastime but much more than that,
It is what I live for when I think about that.

And so I’ll discover myself in those turns,
and I live the trail and forest and curves,
I’ll share with my friends this, who I am
And I’ll express on the mountain what I know I’ve become.

And much more than this and to be true to myself
I won’t take on the mountain–I’ll take on myself.
It’s myself that’s the challenge not the mountains there
It’s myself I must conquer to really go there.