Long Way from Home
I've been here before
Maybe -- I'm not sure
It looks a lot like someplace I should know
Someplace I passed through
A memory so new
Or maybe it was many years ago
Rusted railway
Where I once used to play
Although my parents didn't want me there
A barren stretch of track
Turns the decades back
I hear their voices echo through the air
But I'm a long way from home
It seems I've often seen
The distant country scene
I saw beyond the street I just passed
I could be wrong
But doesn't it belong
With places I remember from the past
Sagging power lines
Hanging over pines
That hide beside a highway overpass
A barren stretch of land
Where dad would often stand
As mom and I walked barefoot on the grass
But it's a long way from home
I never seem to learn
My childhood won't return
Lost forever, never to be found
I roam from place to place
Failing to erase
The memories that follow me around
Sights reminding me
Of where I long to be
No matter where I look, that's all I find
Though I keep moving on
Sometimes I wish I hadn't gone
And left my simple life so far behind
And I long to be home
But I'm a long way from home
Writer/s: Jay Ducharme
