When i'm walkin alone in the night, i see the green coyote in the distance Strollin in the desert, long, beneath the crescent moon In the boomerang action of the noon gang i climb the hills and i wonder Thunder and the lightning falls into a barren zone Maybe someone saw me in the forest last wednesday night I dont know I visit all the time but then again i try to not to be seen In the green I'm a mountain jumper When i ride the night I'm a mountain jumper When i ride the night Look at the bones, purplish tones, across the valley painted by the sagebrush Dryest open prairie waitin for the fallen stars On a rock edge hangin off a steep ledge i climb on down into an oak tree Rollin in its twisted limbs, i float above the ground Running from a rolling angry tumbleweed down a hill
In the wind Sliding on the gravelly traveling avalanches on the slope In the Plain I'm a mountain jumper When i ride the night I'm a mountain jumper When i ride the night When i ride the night, ride the night When i ride the night "When i ride the night!" Etc... On the high ground, shaken by a low sound, the desert looming in the distance Lookin at the sunlight dyin through the blackened ridge Water out of nowhere flyin through the air I see the tidal wave and i'm under Holdin in my breath i sink into the desert sea Swimmin through the turning and churning into the afternoon sun up above Floating river canyon abandoned by sand and heat and all the rocks On the Plain Cuz I'm a mountain jumper When i ride the night I'm a mountain jumper When i ride the night Etc...