As I traveled down that lonesome road

The one where you end and I begin

I found that what once was lost–

The forgotten mile was me, my friend

The forgotten mile was all it took

To take me away from what I knew

And deliver me into someplace else

Where to myself I’d be true

When I was small I’d ride my bike

Count all the sidewalk cracks

Dream about my future life

Laid out in concrete maps

The distance between your head

and your heart

Is the distance from proof to faith

As I’ve veered from what made sense

I found a strength I never knew

It took a forgotten mile to remind me 

Or to teach me for the very first time

That the road to peace inside 

Is the one we don’t think to try