The Countryside Rambler

Chorus: The countryside rambler refused to be confined in an institution of experimentation and be abused; escaping civilization was her will to find freedom, to see the new spring bloom and chase butterflies: all she wanted was to ramble in her peaceful kingdom, where she was free to create her own happiness! Verse I Many don't know why Linda Bishop was afraid; her strange personality made her helpless and frail, and unable to burn all the bridges she crossed, she held on her firm belief that freedom wasn't Hell! Verse II Linda Bishop, challenged every doctor in the psychatric world... refusing what it offered to make her feel alive and do better; her mental disease was advanced and needed to be cured, pills were the only alternative to make her a prisoner forever! Verse III And in that room where demons gathered daily to break her fearless spirit, she planned revenge: never giving in and allowing others to change her outlook on life and mainly her delusive reality! Verse IV Linda Bishop defied a society that believed in medication, she broke from it and wandered in that wilderness all winter; surviving on water and apples she picked in cool October... some wonder how she spent her time in bleaky desolation? Verse V Linda's fate was an aweful one, she was found dead by a dim burning log in an old farmhouse wearing a coat that sheltered her from the bitter cold; she was a hermit who sought no sympathy, perhaps her faith in our Lord was stronger than anyone who ever lived in solitude, finding comfort in song! Written on 5/7/2017