As I have alluded to in a few previous pieces, I wrote a fingerstyle guitar piece after my first trip up the Old Garafraxa Road to Lion's Head, Ontario, during the COVID lockdowns of 2020, followed by several further follow-up trips later in 2020, and 2021. I have wanted to return since then, but as of yet, have not yet been able to due to issues of scheduling, and/or no longer having a reliable vehicle.

As I have likewise alluded in a few previous pieces, I have dealt with some unique challenges over the past few years, (unique to myself at least... I don't for one second think, much less claim, that I have things any worse than anyone else. You know, I've been told more than once, and I GET it: "Check Your Privilege!" and all of that). However, what someone feels and has to deal with is ultimately real to them. I can accept, and I hope that other folks can at least accept that much.

Part of what made my own situation at the time seem so uniquely toxic was that the enforced loneliness of the COVID lockdowns just so happened to occur at a time in my life when I was in the lowest deepest trench of Midlife Crisis and severe depression, when I was in a situation of constantly looking back at all the failures, bad choices and missed opportunities of my so-called 'adult' life thus far.

A lot of things hung very heavily on me (and still do to some extent), about things I had wanted to accomplish, and things that I had striven for, and which just didn't work out, for various reasons. I'm not going to get into an overlong, exhaustive discussion beyond what I already have, especially since a lot of the other details have already been laid out quite exhaustively in the A/Ns for several previous pieces I have written that were about and/or inspired by what proved to be some very deeply spiritual, meaningful and very cathartic journeys up to Lion's Head, and the very raw, ancient magicks those lands seem to have about them.

I have held off on uploading these lyrics for as long as I have, simply because it has taken me a long time to get the phrasing just right, and I'm still not 100% satisfied with it. Hence, this piece may still undergo further edits and tinkering before I eventually post a musical file of me singing and playing it.