Motherlode

Story Behind The Song

a real predicament in love

Song Description

A metaphoric ride into the search for love, from a woman who's heart cannot be unlocked, compared with searching for the motherlode on the western slope of the Rockies.

Song Length 2:43 Genre Country - Traditional, Folk - Country
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Poignant, Moving Subject Hope, Unrequited Love
Similar Artists Kenny Rogers Language English
Era 1970 - 1979

Lyrics

While roundin? up strays near the Red Bonnet Pass,

found a nugget of gold in the late-August grass.

Left the ranchin? behind, went in search of the gold,

and I knew I was close, but the trail went cold.



Spent my life, chasin? dreams. Now I?m weathered and old.

Given all that I had, in pursuit of the gold--

like your heart, cased in stone, so invincibly stowed--

still in search of your love, and that sweet motherlode.



Like a carrot, rigged-up, just ahead of a mule,

the lure of that gold led me on, like a fool.

I was driven to dig, by a glimmer of light,

but the gold and my hope only vanished from sight.



Spent my life, chasin? dreams. Now I?m weathered and old.

Given all that I had, in pursuit of the gold--

like your heart, cased in stone, so invincibly stowed--

still in search of your love, and that sweet mother lode.



My passion propelled by the gleam in your talk,

behind me?s a pile of meaningless rock.

Ahead is a mountain with gold in its soul.

Can?t stop, so I?ll always be digging that hole.



Spent my life, chasin? dreams. Now I?m weathered and old.

Given all that I had, in pursuit of the gold--

like your heart, cased in stone, so invincibly stowed--

still in search of your love, and that sweet mother lode.

Lyrics Michael Sorbonne Robinson Music Michael Sorbonne Robinson
Producer Michael Sorbonne Robinson

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