Lyrics Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter

Homecoming

I feel a change in the weather

I feel a change in me

The days are getting shorter and the birds begin to leave

Even me, yes, yes, y'all

Who has been so long alone

I'm headed home

Headed home

The nights are getting colder now

The air is getting crisp

I first tasted the universe on a night like this

A box of wine, an alibi

And the hunger in her eyes

In a place where the tree of good and evil still resides

Still resides

Homecoming

Homecoming, homecoming

She said "show me what you got, babe

I'm not like other girls"

Just give me your bad self

And a place for us to make a stand and I can move the world

Lift the valley from the floor, honey

It'll turn to the sky

They'll say that it's a miracle and you'll know damn well they're right

Damn well they're right

Homecoming (Don't go away now)

Homecoming, homecoming (Don't go away now)

Homecoming (Don't go away now)

Homecoming, homecoming (Don't go away now)

(Hey now)

When the oracle spoke to me she was like a roadside song (Don't go away now)

Do unto others as you would have them do

Even if in turn they do you wrong (Hey now)

This town right here's my everything

And though I've been torn away (Don't go away now)

It had my heart

It has my heart

Be still my heart

My heart will stay (Hey now)

My heart will stay

My heart will stay (Don't go away now)

Get just a little bit high

Get a little tongue-tied

Gonna try to find whatever ever made time

That kind of immemorial

That time before the fall

That time before the autumn really turned the corner

Drive east of Eden

'Til we start to feel the west

We were never far from nowhere

You could see it from the edge of town

Honey, baby, wonder how it'd feel now

Somehow I can't believe that it could feel like before, but

The air is getting colder now

The nights are getting crisp

I first tasted the universe on a night like this

An alibi a box of wine

And the hunger in your eyes

In a place where the tree of good and evil still resides

Homecoming

Homecoming, homecoming (Homecoming)

Homecoming

Homecoming, homecoming (Homecoming)

Homecoming

Homecoming, homecoming (Don't go away now)

Homecoming (Don't go away now)

Homecoming, homecoming