D A7 Bm                    D A7 Bm
Thought I knew my mind   like the back of my hand.
                 D   A7 Bm                            C  B  A
The gold and the rainbow, but nothing panned out as I planned.
                           D            D                    G D E
And they say only milk and honey's gonna make your soul satisfied.
                           G                 C                      D
Well, I better learn how to swim, 'cause the crossing is chilly and wide.


[Verse 2]
             D            A7     Bm                    D A7 Bm
Twisted guardrails on the highway, broken glass on the cement.
                     D    A7      Bm                          C B A
A ghost of someone's tragedy. How recklessly my time has been spent.
                   D
They say that it's never too late,
                                 G  D  E
But you don't, you don't get any younger.
                            G                        C        D     A7
Well, I better learn how to starve the emptiness and feed the hunger.


[Chorus]
          D         G                C           G D A7
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road.
        Bm              D                 G                     E
You can stand there and agonize 'til your agony’s your heaviest load.
                        D                                 G D E
You'll never fly as the crow flies. Get used to a country mile.
                        G                     C
When you're learning to face the path at your pace
                           D    A7
Every choice is worth your while.


[Verse 3]
                   D           A7                  Bm                       D A7 Bm
And there's always retrospect (when you're looking back) to light a clearer path.
                         D         A7    Bm          D           C B A
Every five years or so I look back on my life, and I have a good laugh.
                 D
You start at the top (start at the top), go full-circle 'round,
                       G D E
Catch a breeze, take a spill,
             G                     C                       D    A7
But ending up where I started again makes me want to stand still.


[Chorus]
          D         G                C           G D A7
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road.
        Bm              D                 G                     E D A7
You can stand there and agonize 'til your agony’s your heaviest load.
                        D                                 G D E
You'll never fly as the crow flies. Get used to a country mile.
                        G                     C
When you're learning to face the path at your pace
                           D
Every choice is worth your while


[Bridge]
Bm       D    E                            C              G
Stepping on a crack (stepping on a crack), breaking up and looking back
           E                                Bm
'Til every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait,
     C                             G        A7
'Til every step you take becomes a twist of fate (twist of fate).


[Chorus]
          D         G                C           G D A7
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road.
        Bm              D                 G                     E D A7
You can stand there and agonize 'til your agony’s your heaviest load.
                        D                                 G D E
You'll never fly as the crow flies. Get used to a country mile.
                        G                     C
When you're learning to face the path at your pace
                           D
Every choice is worth your while


[Chorus]
          D         G                C           G D A7
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road.
        Bm              D                 G                     E D A7
You can stand there and agonize 'til your agony’s your heaviest load.
                        D                                 G D E
You'll never fly as the crow flies. Get used to a country mile.
                        G                     C
When you're learning to face the path at your pace
                           D
Every choice is worth your while


[Outro]
                            G                     C
And when you're learning to face the path at your pace,
                           D
Every choice is worth your while.