How To Move Mountains is dedicated to anybody who has ever had something immovable in their way. You've gotta take one deep breath.
Lyrics and vocals by Dylan Owen
Written by Dylan Owen, naebird
Produced by naebird
Additional production by Skinny Atlas
Featuring vocals by naebird
Piano by naebird and Gabe Valle
Trumpets by naebird
Strings by naebird and Gabe Valle
Electric guitar by Bronze Vases
Mixed by naebird
Mastered by naebird, Wes Henry
Artwork by Dylan Owen
"How To Move Mountains"
Lyrics
Alright
It all started with a step
We’ve all got higher hills to climb
Regardless of our depths
I don’t want to face the morning
I don’t know what’s out ahead
If it’s true you’ve gotta lose yourself
To find yourself again
I don’t know
Who I am
Where I am
Where I’ve been
Here I am
I just show up as myself, lost as hell
Did everything I thought would help
Ringing those appointment bells
I could fill a novel up
With thoughts about my former self
So
I sat down on the peak of a cliff
And tried to see the whole world
How green its scenery is
All the greatest life philosophies
That teach us to live
They made me question
Why I even exist
As we get older
And we let go of the meaning
We believed in as kids
That life has a foundation
A little deeper than this
I find it hard to hold onto
Like the mist and the coast
I had no Kerouac moments
Cuz I was sitting at home
Like this
Trying to pen these songs
Trying to find a better place
Where I might belong
This is not a freestyle
I will write these wrongs
It took me three years of therapy
To write these songs
And learn
How to move mountains
This is how you find peace
When there’s so much in your head
And the whole world falls on your chest
Just breathe
You can move mountains
When the whole world’s on your chest
When you’re caving in again
Inhale, exhale, next
You’ve gotta take one deep breath
You, you can move mountains
Twenty five living with regret
Can you get up again
I know that living scares you to death
That’s only cuz you haven’t done it yet
This is how you move mountains
You can move mountains
I can almost smell the ocean now
When we’re this close
To your parents’ house
The highway spinning backwards
As we’re traveling
Like lightning in your memory
Just waiting to come crashing down
I look at my depressions
Like they’re valleys now
Now I’ve got orchestras inside of my chest
And I feel them rising with the violins
Don’t silence them, I’ll die
Cuz I just broke up with my soulmate
To face the world single
Nothing but the sweet romance
Of the open road flirting with the turn signal
Look this is it
These are the wings that we use
Maybe all we hold onto
Are the things that we lose
The people we love
Fall apart like old American houses
Honestly
Somedays
I’m afraid to move mountains
But I wanna find peace
There’s so much in my head
I can barely take one breath
And breathe
I’ve gotta try to move mountains
Or maybe I should just try and get some sleep
Inhale
Hold it for five seconds
Breathe
[Chorus]
May all your peaks be mountains
All your lows be valleys
Your depressions all be fields
Where wildflowers grow
May you take the road less traveled
But never feel alone
May you always see the mountains
In your range of highs and lows
Cuz tonight
We’re gonna climb up to your rooftop
If you don’t have a lot left
Give it whatever you’ve got
The moon and the constellations
Are our jukebox
We’ll let em spin in constant rotation
While we moonwalk
Look, I’ve got so much
I could never say properly
Even when it feels like
The world falls on top of me
I believe that trying to move it
Isn’t useless
Cuz this isn’t you kid
You kid
You can move mountains
