Ain’t No Mountain

When all these people around me

Start getting high and drunk

Sometimes I join in, and sometimes I don’t

I think all the while

About those great lines

That “there ain’t no mountain high enough”

Lines that I wish were mine

But I feel them all the time

Especially when the people around me start getting high

I’ve been way higher than all that drinking and smoking begets

Without any of that shit, man

Just with my own mind

Sometimes with the help of a book

Anything that makes me feel like a crook

Sometimes a tune

Or a girl as beautiful as the moon

As long as I’m breaking those rules

Set down by ‘dem crazy fools in the state

And I keep climbing mountains

Cause there ain’t no mountain high enough

Ain’t no heavens that I don’t wanna get a just a little touch on

That’s why I don’t need all that stuff

As much as I used to one day

I’ve found myself here another way

To keep on going towards the light of day

Away from the those dark parts of my life

Back in the tunnels

Beneath the mountain-home

That really ain’t that high

As I’ll someday get going and be way, way above

Ain’t no mountain, baby

Ain’t no mountain