The Way Home

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Lying still, head awake,
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eyes closed tight and thoughts ablaze,
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It’s coursing like a river going through my mind,
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taking hits from the hands of time.

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Silence can be so odd,
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it’s like looking around for the eyes of God,
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There’s a truth somewhere that I just can’t find,
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taking hits from the hands of time.

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And I wonder if you were here right now,
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would you sit with me beneath this darkened shroud?
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In this prison built from bricks of shame,
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I want to tear it down to the frame.

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         A                   D        A
If you smash your life up against the wall,
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you want to break it like a bottle and just let go,
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But I don’t know if there’s a God at all,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more.


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And the hours go by endlessly, and the days were spent breathlessly,
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and the nights begging for some sleep. Oh the endless time alone.
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And the faces of the boys in line, there was fear in their eyes, and they all,
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We just want to find a way home            home

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home          home

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I can hear the birds, see the light outside,
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stand up like a man and swallow my pride,
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I can write these words down in a rhyme.
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They’ve been beaten from me by the hands of time.

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I don’t know why it’s always this way,
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and I hang my head low in the light of day,
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All I know is I’m tired of being afraid,
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I got to walk this road on these bricks I’ve laid.

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All the trumpets and the marching bands, the thunder claps and trembling hands,
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all the people stood up in the stands, and I just felt so alone,
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‘Cause the halos looked like rusted chains in the light  As we screamed in the dark,
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I just wanted to find a way home
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home

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The truth is I’m not brave or sure,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more,
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I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more.


A                     D        A
The truth is I’m not brave or sure,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more,
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I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more.


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And I don’t know if this road will end at your door,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more,
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I don’t even know what I’m heading for,
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I just know I can’t live like this no more.
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I just know I can’t live like this no more.