Song – Quetico
RECORDINGS BY BOB GIBSON-
- none
RECORDINGS BY OTHER ARTISTS
- Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers
Closing The Distance
Song Notes
Quetico Provincial Park, a wilderness park in Northwestern Ontario, Canada inspired this co-write. Thank goodness Claudia and Sally recorded it so beautifully or it might have slipped away!
LYRIC
QUETICO
I just don’t know what else to do
I need to come back home to you
Again
To ease my pain
To smell the air, to hear a loon
To touch the stars, to feel the moon
It sets my soul to singing once again
Quetico
Quetico
I’m lost and so alone here in this throng
I’ve lost the sight of right and wrong
It’s been so long
To see God’s creature’s running free
Alive and in the place they ought to be
Quetico
Quetico
Where silence is no cause for fright
And time is when you stop
And when you start
Go live the part
Of voyageur, of Indian
Take all you need to live within
The strong canoe that takes you to the heart
Quetico
Quetico
To drink of water crystal clear
Return it in each joyful tear
That falls
To share it all
With someone else like you and me
Who’s never felt so sure and free
As when we met the land and heard the call
To Quetico
Quetico
We’re lost and so alone here in this throng
We’ve lost the sight of right and wrong
It’s been so long
To smell the air, to hear a loon
To touch the sky, to feel the moon
It sets my soul to singing once again
Quetico
Words & music by Bob Gibson and Claudia Schmidt
© Robert Josiah Music, Inc.