Home Again

Home Again
(boudreau)

I was brought up just north of New York City
Where the Merrit greets the Hutch
In a noisy house on a quiet street
Where the neighbors know too much

There’s a weekend in spring when they throw out old things
and he came home with a broken set of drums
traded a baseball mitt for a Sears n Roebuck kit
and three songs by the Rolling Stones

And they said
Don’t you know you can never go home again
Don’t you know you should never even look back
You should know all long-time friends are gone from here
Just as long as the memory’s in tact

I had a road-rashed notch back with an in-dash eight track
and quarter tank of gas
If only I could get out (of) that neighborhood
I’d bet i’d get half a chance

and that hamster wheel is all too real
and we run as fast as we can
And we headed no where and wound up here
Despite our best laid plans

And they said ‘Don’t you know that you can always come home again’
‘It’d be real swell to have ya back’
‘All your good-time friends they’ve been asking for you’
But there’s too many memories attached

I took a red-eye at midnight as straight as the crow flies
touchdown 4 am
The sun was on the rise and much to my surprise
never to go down again