The Long Way Home

Dark highways and the country roads

Don't scare you like they did

The woods and winds now welcome you

To the places you once hid

You grew up and you moved away

Across a foreign sea

And what was left was what was kept

Was what you gave to me

You thought you'd left it all behind

You thought you'd up and gone

But all you did was figure out

How to take the long way home

The Southern rain was heavy

Almost heavy as your heart

A cavalcade of strangers came

To tear your world apart

The bells of old St. Mary's

Are now the clang of Charcoal Hill

And you took the old religion from

The woman on the hill

You thought you'd left it all behind

You thought you'd up and gone

But all you did was figure out

How to take the long way home

You thought you'd left it all behind

You thought you'd up and gone

But all you did was figure out

How to take the long way home

The long way home