Yngvarr Nowicki - Long Way Home (Official Audio)

======= Long Way Home LYRICS: =======

Born back in the nineties, when the world was turnin' slow
Learned to count my blessings when the pockets were runnin' low
Dust motes dancin' in the sun, on a worn-out wooden floor
Mama said, "Son, this ain't enough, we gotta look for more."
So we packed our lives in cardboard, first time I walked away
Left a piece of my young soul in that small town yesterday.

Lord, it's a long way home, a long and weary track
Got a lifetime full of leavin', ain't no use in lookin' back
Three times the road has called my name, three times I've had to roam
Is there a heavier damn burden than the long way home?

Stood on my own at eighteen, thought I was a full-grown man
Walked right out my father's door, with calloused, empty hands
Chasin' down a dollar, sleepin' under city lights
That second goodbye tasted bitter on them long and lonely nights
Built a life and thought I'd settled, thought I'd finally found my place
Didn't know that fate was grinnin', right there to my face.

Lord, it's a long way home, a long and weary track
Got a lifetime full of leavin', ain't no use in lookin' back
Three times the road has called my name, three times I've had to roam
Is there a heavier damn burden than the long way home?

Twenty-eight years on this earth, the sky began to fall
That bitch of a war came screamin', to take away it all
Didn't pack no pictures, didn't stop to say goodbye
Just ran with the devil at my heels and smoke up in the sky
The third time is the cruelest, when it ain't your choice to make
Just a ghost on a highway, for my own damn soul's sake.

Sometimes I dream of the dirt, the river and the trees
A place I can't touch anymore, carried on the breeze
Is there a sadder thing on earth, than a man so far away
Prayin' that his children's children might see that home someday?

Maybe they'll walk that road back... find that broken door...
And tell the ghosts that I'm still out here... lookin' for the shore...
Yeah... the long way home...
Lord... it's the long way home...
So long...

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