Travelers Prayer

TRAVELER’S PRAYER As recorded by Mary Chapin-Carpenter (From the 2020 Album THE DIRT AND THE STARS - VINYL EDITION BONUS TRACK) [Intro]                                                     [Verse 1] Here I am walking far from familiar streets Looking for someone who might resemble me Whispering something sounds like a traveler’s prayer     [Verse 2] Saying luck play your hand I am a stranger here Time be a friend show me which way to steer Love show your face with the grace of a traveler’s prayer     [Bridge] Maybe it’s tucked in a journal you’ve carried for years Engraved on a compass or long disappeared The one in my head’s always ready when I need a spare Reciting the words as I’m yearning for home When daylight has left me by the side of the road Nobody’s hurting and nobody’s cold anywhere In a traveler’s prayer [Interlude]                            [Verse 3] I’m scanning the skies for signs that we’re not alone Signals and messages bound for the twilight zone Maybe they’re wondering who keeps on waiting down there     [Verse 4] We’re just the pale blue dot a speck in an ink-black sky Do we see with our hearts instead of our jaded eyes Imagine the world on a string and sing a traveler’s prayer [Bridge] What if I heard my name called by a voice that I know From a memory summoned from so long ago? I keep feeling the lately departed are everywhere Now the days race like swifts in the violet hour Veering and steering higher and and farther Oh to be finally delivered on a warm gust of air It’s a traveler’s prayer     [Bridge] Reciting the words as we’re yearning for home When darkness has found us at the end of the road Nobody’s hurting and nobody’s cold anywhere In a traveler’s prayer [Outro]