《Homecoming》歌词

[00:04:25] it's desert ice outside but this diner has thawed my ears

[00:04:25] hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile when the waitress hears

[00:04:25] that I was born in North Carolina

[00:04:25] not an hour from her home town

[00:04:25] and we used to play the same pizza parlor pinball

[00:04:25] and there's a glance in time suspended as I wonder how it is

[00:04:25] we've been swept up just by circumstance to where the coyote lives

[00:04:25] where my days are strips of highway

[00:04:25] and she's wiping tables down

[00:04:25] holding on and still waiting for that windfall

[00:04:25] but I've come home

[00:04:25] even though I've never had so far to go

[00:04:25] I've come home

[00:04:25] I pay the check and leave the change from a crumpled ten-dollar bill

[00:04:25] head across the street where VACANCY is burning in neon still

[00:04:25] well the night eats up my body heat

[00:04:25] and there's no sign of another

[00:04:25] and I find myself slipping down into that black

[00:04:25] but things are good I've got a lot of followers of my faith

[00:04:25] I've got a whole congregation living in my head these days

[00:04:25] and I'm preaching from the pulpit

[00:04:25] to cries of "Amen brother"

[00:04:25] closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back

[00:04:25] and I've come home

[00:04:25] even though I swear I've never been so alone

[00:04:25] I've come home

[00:04:25] I just want to be living as I'm dying

[00:04:25] just like everybody here

[00:04:25] just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile

[00:04:25] and I don't know where I'm driving to

[00:04:25] but I know I'm getting old

[00:04:25] and there's a blessing in every moment every mile

[00:04:25] thin white terry bars of soap and a couple little plastic cups

[00:04:25] old Gideons Bible in the nightstand drawer saying "Go on open up"

[00:04:25] well I'll kneel down on the carpet here

[00:04:25] though I never was sure of God

[00:04:25] think tonight I'll give Him the benefit of the doubt

[00:04:25] I switch off the lights and imagine that waitress outlined in the bed

[00:04:25] her hair falling all around me

[00:04:25] I smile and shake my head

[00:04:25] well we all write our own endings

[00:04:25] and we all have our own scars

[00:04:25] but tonight I think I see what it's all about

[00:04:25] because I've come home

[00:04:25] I've come home