Home For Fall

So much has changed back home

Since you left without

packing all your things

I always drive past your house

Hoping you'll be sitting on your porch

And I still smell the smoke on your clothes

And I can still hear those

second-hand stories fall off your tongue

It's just not the same around here

without you

most of the time

I feel like you're in over your head out there

You ran away from the Midwest

And traded it in for beaches and East Coast sunsets

Don't take in too much too soon

Keep your chin up out there

Don't forget where you came from and who

cares about you

Whenever you're missing home just look at your arm.

You've got the state lines inked into your forearm

There's still memories of you pinned on my wall

It's just not the same around here

without you

most of the time

I feel like you're in over your head out there

You ran away from the Midwest

And traded it in for beaches and East Coast sunsets

Don't take in too much too soon

Maybe you'll be here next year

to waste the fall away

watching the leaves blow across my driveway

and we could listen to American football

or talk about high school

just like we did the years before