DESCRIPTION:
The lyrics of this song are actually based off a poem by a boy named Everett Ruess. In 1934 he disappeared in the Utah desert at the age of 20 and was never seen again. He left behind many block prints of the American southwest and massive amounts of letters and poems. Here is a poem he wrote when he was fifteen years old!:

Onward from vast uncharted spaces,
Forward through timeless voids,
Into all of us surges and races
The measureless might of the wind.

In the steep silence of thin blue air
High on a lonely cliff-ledge,
Where the air has a clear, clean rarity,
I give to the wind...my pledge:

”By the strength of my arm, by the sight of my eyes,
By the skill of my fingers, I swear,
As long as life dwells in me, never will I
Follow any way but the sweeping way of the wind.”

He was in search of everlasting beauty. This song is my tribute to him."

Video: Anna Larson, public domain images from Pond5
Music: The Wheelwrights, "Burro Shoe", A Forest In Trees