Roots in Their Traveling

June blows in open windows
as they roll on your slopes
Mountain State don't embrace them
they'll be gone before you know

They are settled in motion
They are tied to the spin
They have roots in their traveling.

All the while they are moving
and the land's standing still
They are watching a movie
on a van's clear windshield.

They are settled in motion
They are tied to the spin
They have roots in their traveling.

In sight of the highway
mountain people stand.
They are like the trees there
rooted in the land.

A summer night in the making
let the movie slow down.
Time to build a replacement
for the sun's almost gone.

They are settled in motion
They have love in between, and
They have roots in their traveling.

words and music, Randy Parsons/ASCAP