Wild and Free

Verse

I was born without roots, just a shadow on sand,

Never promised a soul or belonged to a land.

Got a pocket of miles and a world full of signs,

But I follow the whispers that ride on the pines.

There’s a place far beyond where the wild rivers glide,

Where a man tips his hat to a crocodile’s smile—

And I trust his cold eyes more than warm human lies,

’Neath a rainforest moon in the hush of the night skies.

Chorus

So no tears when I’m gone, raise your bottles high,

Let the night shake the earth and the sparks kiss the sky.

Tell the world I was wild, tell the world I was free,

Tell the creatures I loved they can howl for me.

When I’m dust in the wind and my last race is done,

Celebrate—

’Cause damn it, I lived like a fearless one.

Verse

I don’t fear the reaper—he can keep to my trail,

But he’ll wear out his boots long before I will fail.

Got a heart like a highway with no posted sign,

And an engine that roars when it crosses the line.

So I’m leaving the noise where the concrete decays,

Headed deep where the jungle unravels its maze—

Where the whisky runs warm and the waters run clear,

And a man learns the truth with no reason to fear.

Verse

There’s a call in the branches that knows me by name,

Says a life without chains is a life without shame.

Let the river be guide and the shadows be friends,

Let the past wash away where the far shoreline bends.

If the world wants to judge, let it judge from afar—

I trust creatures that hunt more than men in a bar.

’Cause the code of the wild ain’t deceitful or cruel—

It’s honest and hungry, not broken by rules.

Chorus

So no tears when I’m gone, raise your bottles high,

Let the night shake the earth and the sparks kiss the sky.

Tell the world I was wild, tell the world I was free,

Tell the creatures I loved they can howl for me.

When I’m dust in the wind and my last race is done,

Celebrate—

’Cause damn it, I lived like a fearless one.

Verse

Let me dive where the deep steals the breath from my chest,

Let me cast out a line where the world feels at rest.

Pour the fire from the bottle, let it burn down slow—

’Neath a sky full of storms only wanderers know.

I’ll outrun every law, outride every dawn,

Respect every creature, then be quietly gone.

Verse

When the night comes to find me, let it find me alone,

With the fish on the line and the wild in my bones.

Let the rainforest drum with the beat of my soul,

As I fade like a whisper no hand can control.

I’ll be gone with the tide, with the thunder, the rain—

But my spirit will race down each outlawed lane;

For a free man can’t stay where his shadow won’t run—

And I’ll ride till the morning says my wandering’s done.

Chorus

So no tears when I’m gone, raise your bottles high,

Let the night shake the earth and the sparks kiss the sky.

Tell the world I was wild, tell the world I was free,

Tell the creatures I loved they can howl for me.

When I’m dust in the wind and my last race is done,

Celebrate—

’C