You Can Never Go Home Again

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[Chorus]
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I remember 20 years ago I was sitting in that court room
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My charges I could not defend
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The last thing the judge said to me as he handed down my sentence
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Was you can never go home again

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Never go home, never go home
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You can never go home again


[Verse 1]
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And I agreed with everything that the judge said
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If you come back around, I'm going out like Judge Dredd
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What was in your head when you made those choices?
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I can only hope that you were plagued by voices
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And you made the decision not to listened to the one
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That was on your side when you started to slide
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But mama brought you back home
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She was broken down to the bone, 'cause you were gone so long
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But now her baby boy is back in the house
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You can see the smile on her mouth
          Em
I ain't never seen her this happy
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Then all of a sudden you disappeared again
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She's crumbling down, the smile is gone from her chin
Em
And she doesn't know where
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And I don't even care
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'Cause you broke mama's heart twice and it ain't even nice
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Now I'm surprised as heck that she's wondering where you went
             Em
And I don't give a damn friend (I don't even care)


[Chorus]
             Em         D           A                   Em
When you've done your time and you come back out that doorway
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You will not find a loved one or a friend
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You may return to the place where the people used to know you
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But you can never go home again

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Never go home, never go home
          C        D   Em
You can never go home again


[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Bruh, the sights these eyes have seen seen would horrify the strongest
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Went and a left home I haven't been to in the longest
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Led a life by the sword, forced to fall upon it
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The kites flew, there was nobody left to correspond with
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Familiar faces either passed on or flipped
           A                   Em
So there wasn't much for me to do except dip
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Too many years lost off the lies of a snitch
            Em
So it was either do a bid, or end up lying in a ditch

      Em                       D
Now, left to walk across the land as a mystery
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Every new town, reinvent a new history
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I turned my back on my past, just to get to see
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A new day, reframe my identity

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To get to sleep at night? Man I need a fifth at least
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The dirty deeds that I did just to get to eat
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Melancholy and emptiness
                Em
The unseen consequence of the conditions of release


[Chorus]
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We found a man the other day, just hanging from the ceiling
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His sentence was almost at an end
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And there on his bed was a note so sad and simple
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Saying You can never go home again

         Em D           Em A
Never go home, never go home
          C       D     Em
You can never go home again
         Em D           Em A
Never go home, never go home
          C       D     Em
You can never go home again