[Verse 1]
The day's been a while fading
Seems like we have slowed
My eyes are getting weary
Can barely see the road
Been a while since we left behind
The city lights
There's just a line
Winding through the night

[Verse 2]
Yesterday's lie scattered
Like broken swords and shields
Like the used-up shells and bullets
On a hundred battlefields
When I think of all the close calls
Both sides of love and death
Sometimes
I can hardly get my breath

[Chorus]
But I'll follow the ribbon
Anyhow
I'll follow the ribbon
That's all right for now
Up in the high country
Or down where the river flows
Wherever it goes
[Bridge]
Don't care if they like it
Don't care if they don't
Never did much care about
If they will or won't
If all you want to know is acorns
Rootin' me a patch of earth
What can your praise
Really be worth?

[Verse 3]
I'm just living with the ringing
Of tomorrow's ancient rhymes
Or a road ahead may be shorter
Than the one we left behind
If there's whiskey in the bottle
Leave some for me
I'll get to it
Eventually

[Chorus]
But I'll follow the ribbon
By the cold lagoon
Follow the ribbon
Under the helpless moon
Winding through the dark hills
Where a million stars a-falls
Wherever it goes