HOMECOMING

Oh, the lights on my street

Still burn white and lonely

When I went back to see

The hill I fell down, 

when no one told me it was it was best that you stay down

And the sidewalk’s strange to see

Where I hid my bike, under the oak tree

And when the sun went down

I fought off the feeling I would drown

And I don’t know why, I can’t fight the feeling

I used to want the rain to come down

Pouring through the ceiling

Just a boy on the edge of the town

Grab the keys and go across town

Smoke a cigarette while I’m hanging around

Pretending not to see

There’s no one here who looks or acts like me

Parking lots and old hotels

Apartment blocks that look scary as hell

Driving alone

Will make you feel like running away from home

You were not wrong

for playing in a band and singing songs

but they came for you just like a pack of dogs

and we stood there in the night and played along

as you were falling down

The beach at dawn

The wind was in your face since you were born

In a place where people never think they’re wrong

You drew outside the lines, outside the norm

You were not black and white

If you’re still around, know it’s not your fault

In a faithless town

Everything you wanted seemed to fade

I saw you run

but the past was at your heels, the Western Sun

It bleached away the stains of what was done

But lying just beneath the damage won

You were gone, not free

 I remember when

Times when I would call you

When I was alone

Sneak into your house

parents fast asleep

I’d never been in love

Saw you in the school

You whisper in my ear that

“You’re the only one”

I could barely think

Walking through the halls

I’d never been in love

And the Fridays in the dark

We were driving in my car

But I always knew 

You’d need a better view 

Than here

I watched you walk away

Staying at your friend’s house

I was down below

Whispering your name

Tap against the glass

I’d never been in love

Meet me on the edge of town

Where there’s one way in, and one way down

You’ll be my biggest mistake

I took the easy way out, it wasn’t easy to fake

Help me burn this building down

It won’t take long until it hits the ground

Call me on the telephone

But only when you are sure that it’s completely gone

And I can breathe again

Knowing that you’re gone and that I’ll probably win

I can breathe again

Knowing that you’re gone and that I’ll probably win

Knowing that you’re gone and that I’ll probably win

Some things that I cannot see

The rearview mirror ain’t what it used to be

I must have been a little drunk

To fall for the songs that you always sung

Turn the lights down and go to bed

All alone, all alone

How much time do I waste on my phone?

All alone, all alone

And I’ve been thinking

I’ll go out west

Because I can’t shake lonely

New York’s so wet

And I don’t see the sunrise

Inside my bed anymore

Walk the street down to 3rd and 4th

On my own, on my own

Stare at places I’ll never own

On my own, on my own

See, I was just dreaming

See, the city was screaming

My name back then

When I was bold and young

 This season, more reasons

To change with the leaves

Much older, grown colder

Hands hard like the trees

In the morning in the sun

I fade

Like a flower when the winter’s coming on

And in the evening when it’s done

I pray

That someone will come take me from my ways

But nothing really changes around here

Days turn into nights and nights to years

A fight between the light and the fear

Fields rising, I’m driving

Tennessee in the Fall

Explaining, complaining

About how I missed it all

Caught up in the light that fades to dark

Walking to the beach and through the park

L.A. only shines between the parts, that fade

Stuck inside the spaces in between

When the lies were told that turned to dreams

And everything we faked or tried to be, was gone

I’m fading into blue

I’m fading into blue

Pretty soon you won’t know my name

Pretty soon you won’t know my name

Pretty soon you won’t know my name

And that’s ok, by me

Always in my head a movie’s on

Of everything I did and what went wrong

And everything I loved and loved so long, is gone

I can’t escape the weight that carries me

Straight across the beach into the sea

Sinking like a stone I hate to be, alone

I’ve been letting go