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It's desert ice outside but this diner has thawed my ears |
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Hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile when the waitress hears |
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That I was born in north carolina |
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Not an hour from her home town |
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And we used to play the same pizza parlor pinball |
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And there's a glance in time suspended as I wonder how it is |
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We've been swept up just by circumstance to where the coyote lives |
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Where my days are strips of highway |
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And she's wiping tables down |
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Holding on and still waiting for that windfall |
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But I've come home |
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Even though I've never had so far to go |
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I've come home |
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I pay the check and leave the change from a crumpled ten-dollar bill |
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Head across the street where vacancy is burning in neon still |
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Well the night eats up my body heat |
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And there's no sign of another |
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And I find myself slipping down into that black |
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But things are good I've got a lot of followers of my faith |
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I've got a whole congregation living in my head these days |
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And I'm preaching from the pulpit |
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To cries of“Amen brother” |
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Closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back |
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And I've come home |
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Even though I swear I've never been so alone |
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I've come home |
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I just want to be living as I'm dying |
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Just like everybody here |
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Just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile |
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And I don't know where I'm driving to |
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But I know I'm getting old |
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And there's a blessing in every moment every mile |
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Thin white terry bars of soap and a couple little plastic cups |
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Old gideons bible in the nightstand drawer saying“Go on open up” |
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Well I'll kneel down on the carpet here |
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Though I never was sure of god |
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Think tonight I'll give him the benefit of the doubt |
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I switch off the lights and imagine that waitress outlined in the bed |
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Her hair falling all around me |
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I smile and shake my head |
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Well we all write our own endings |
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And we all have our own scars |
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But tonight I think I see what it's all about |
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Because I've come home |
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I've come home |
