From the recording Trail
Keith Wyatt, lead guitarist for the Blasters, put the lead guitar track on this song, along with Chad Watson on bass, Robin Jung on back up vocals and violin, and Vic Barrientos on drums. Greg Krueger engineered the recording.
Lyrics
One step at a time is all it comes down to
It doesn’t matter if you’re fifteen hundred high or a curb on the side of the road
You gotta pay attention where you’re feet are brother or you gonna fly right off of the side of this mountain into the great divide say goodbye
Come a sign post made of wood and nail
A simple irony against the grandest of scales Through all this wilderness I’ve traveled challenges prevailed and all the sign says .. Trail
Has it been this easy all along?
Just keep my feet in the path and I can’t go wrong To think of all the years I searched the meaning of this song
I wouldn’t be here but for the grace of a few Put me back together when I was broken in two Separated spiritually physically askew You said you’d straighten that up for me, damned if you didn’t do what you said you would do!
Figures the solution would be so
For the king of complicating everything he knows The never ending questioning detail answered simply by feet on the trail!
The only way for me to lose these everyday blues Is shut up and put in my gratitude shoes The devil’s always waiting to take his cue To keep him off my tail I gotta hit that trail!
Come a sign post made of wood and nail
A simple irony against the grandest of scales Through all this wilderness I’ve traveled challenges prevailed and all the sign says .. Trail!