Mountains...

by Biffy Clyro

Took a bite out of a mountain range,
Thought my teeth would break the mountain did.
Let's go, I want to go, all the way to the horizon.

I took a drink out of the ocean and,
I'm treading water there before I drown.
Let's dive, I want to dive to the bottom of the ocean.
I took a ride, I took a ride, I wouldn't go there without you.
Let's take a ride, we'll take a ride. I wouldn't leave here without you.

I am a mountain, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me.
I am a mountain, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me.

'Cause you tear us apart, with all the things you don't like.
You can't understand that I won't leave 'til we're finished here,
And then you'll find out where it all went wrong.

I wrote a note to the jungle and it wrote me back that I was never crowned king of the jungle, so
There's an end to my horizon.
I took a ride, I took a ride. I wouldn't go there without you.
Let's take a ride, we'll take a ride. I wouldn't leave here without you.

I am a mountain, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me.
I am a mountain, I am the sea.

'Cause you tear us apart, with all the things you don't like.
You can't understand that I won't leave 'til we're finished here,
And then you'll find out where it all went wrong.

Nothing lasts forever, except you and me. (You are my mountain, you are my sea.)
Love will last forever, between you and me. (You are my mountain, you are my sea.)

I am a mountain, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me.
I am a mountain, I am the sea.
I am a mountain, I am the sea.
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I love this song...I love singing along to this song. Although, I would say it's more like exhaling part of my soul than singing...it feels like a great release to yell some of these lines out at the top of my lungs.

There have been so many things in the last year or so that I thought would make me break...but it was those things that I withstood, and held out against. I have been broken, but not by the mountains. I have kept my head above water--at moments just barely. But I am still here, breathing.

I want to go...explore, adventure, go beyond my limits--or else how else will I know where they are?

There is part of this song that reminds me of my mother. I remember the day she left town after my parents got divorced. I was with my Grandmother, my younger brother, and my older half-brother. My brother and I were to stay with my Dad in Payson, but my older brother was leaving with my Mom. All day my older brother worried that my Mom was going to leave without him, so finally my Grandmother drove us around town to try and find my Mom. Eventually we found her, and while my older brother was close to tears she told him, "I would never leave without my little navigator!" It was a touching moment...but it wasn't years later until I realized that she left without my younger brother and I...

And then I think about my ex...he would tear us apart with all the things he didn't like...with life, with me...

The further I get away from my marriage, the more I seem to think that my ex didn't really like me. He may have loved me--because I was pretty, because I was there, because I took care of him--but I don't think he liked me. He was threatened by my intellect, frightened by my sense of adventure, scared by my curiosities and often told me I was "crazy" for all the things I wanted to do. He was unaware of the wedges and chasms he kept putting between us--simply because he didn't like change or new experiences..and yes, me. He couldn't understand that I wasn't going to leave until we were done--all done. I was in for the long haul, and he never believed me or understood it. He could never wrap his head (or heart) around unconditional love....I wasn't done...I wasn't going to be done...but he changed that. And now we get to sit and analyze where it all went wrong....

I am a mountain.
I am the sea.
I am stronger that I ever thought I could be.

No one can take that away from me.

If I have learned anything, it's that.