The Mountain Lyrics


(Music - Nick McMaster, Lyrics taken from a text fragment written by Michelangelo, circa 1522)

The soul tries out a thousand cures, in vain;

Since I was taken from my early road,

Vainly it worries how it can return.

The sea and the mountains, and the fire and the sword,

All these together, I live in their midst.

The mountain, he'll not leave me, who has seized

My intellect, and taken away my reason.