[Verse 1]
I left the road in the rearview
Boots on the black dirt path
Pine smoke in my jacket
Mud on the hem and the cuffs
The river keeps its own time
No phone can pull me back
I let the weight fall off me
With every stone I pass
[Pre-Chorus]
And the trees don't ask my name
They just make room
The sky cracks open slowly
Like it knows what to do
[Chorus]
I come alive out there
Where the roots hold me down
I come alive out there
Where the wild comes around
Moss under my nails
And the dark feels kind
I come alive out there
I come alive outside
[Verse 2]
I watch the deer at sunrise
Move like a breath through glass
The wind combs through the branches
And it never looks back
My chest unclenches easy
When the ferns bend low
The world gets honest in the timber
And I start to know
[Pre-Chorus]
That the stones have heard my silence
For a long, long while
And the hills keep taking
Every crooked part of me in stride
[Chorus]
I come alive out there
Where the roots hold me down
I come alive out there
Where the wild comes around
Moss under my nails
And the dark feels kind
I come alive out there
I come alive outside
[Bridge]
No walls around my breathing
No noise to split the night
Just ash, rain, and cedar
And a pulse that feels right
If I lose myself, I find me
In the creek, in the frost, in the fire
Yeah, the earth keeps calling softly
And I answer when I tire
[Final Chorus]
I come alive out there
Where the roots hold me down
I come alive out there
Where the wild comes around
Moss under my nails
And the dark feels kind
I come alive out there
I come alive outside