Wrong Trail, Right Story

[intro]
(strummed guitar, a whistle of wind)

[verse 1]
Left the trailhead Tuesday with a paper map
Bought at a gas station, the kind that folds and snaps
Weather app said sunny, well, the app was wrong
By noon the clouds rolled heavy and the day was gone

[verse 2]
Took the shortcut Danny swore he knew by heart
Ten miles later, GPS said we were forty miles apart
Blister on my heel like a marble in my sock
And the granola bars were gone before the second clock

[chorus]
We were lost but we were laughing
On a mountain in the rain
Boots soaked through, no signal, no shame
Tried to pitch the tent in the dark with frozen hands
Turned a three-mile day into a five-man band
Hey — it went wrong, but it went right
Sometimes the wrong trail's the best story of your life

[verse 3]
Fell in the creek crossing, phone went down the stream
Sarah saved the marshmallows, didn't save her scream
Fire wouldn't catch with everything soaked through
So we huddled under a tarp and sang till two

[chorus]
We were lost but we were laughing
On a mountain in the rain
Boots soaked through, no signal, no shame
Tried to pitch the tent in the dark with frozen hands
Turned a three-mile day into a five-man band
Hey — it went wrong, but it went right
Sometimes the wrong trail's the best story of your life

[bridge]
Rescue was a ranger with a thermos and a grin
Said, "You're two ridges off from where you should've been"
We drank his coffee, packed our pride
Limped back down with the sunrise

[chorus]
We were lost but we were laughing
On that mountain in the rain
Boots soaked through, no signal, no shame
Pitched the tent in the dark with frozen hands
Turned a three-mile day into a five-man band
Hey — it went wrong, but it went right

[outro]
Every year we still go back
Same dumb trail, same damn map
It went wrong, but it went right
Best story of my life