"What I'll Be" was written at a songwriting retreat in New Mexico. I was noodling around on my guitar and someone walked by and said it sounded pretty I was going to write a song with it, right?

I had a couple of lines in my notebook from the day before when I was sitting next to Carson Creek, my hand in the water, amazed at how cold it was from the snow runoff up in the mountains.

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WHAT I'LL BE LYRICS

I’ve landed here and thought I’d be alone,
But others have found this place to call home.
Covering the mountain side
With a solid sheet of silent white.

VERSE
A deer tracked through and there’s been a thaw,
But I’m still here, I keep hanging on.
There’s a rumor going ‘round about spring
When we’ll head down the mountain: the rest’s a mystery.

CHORUS
So I wait – wait for what I’ll be.
I believe there’s a plan for me in the big scheme of things.
So I wait – wait for what I’ll be –
Moving on to see – what I’ll be.

VERSE
As I ride the creek I feel the power.
We’re a force downing trees and watering flowers.
Early on they call me Carson Creek,
Then Padre where the Gulf and Rio meet.

CHORUS
So I wait – wait for what I’ll be.
I believe there’s a plan for me in the big scheme of things.
So I wait – wait for what I’ll be –
Pushing on to see – what I’ll be.

VERSE
Well, I’ve been here a while trying to figure it out,
Caught in the swirl of fish swimming ‘round.
A wind lifts me up one day,
And I start again as a single snowflake.

CHORUS
So I wait – wait for what I’ll be.
I believe there’s a plan for me in the big scheme of things.
So I wait – wait for what I’ll be –
Living on to see – what I’ll be.

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