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Home By Now

from 4 Songs by The Coves

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Nostalgia is a blinding emotion. The yearning for home even a stronger one, from Homer to the Soggy Bottom Boys. I wish I wasn't balding.

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HOME BY NOW

If I was still sixteen, with my engines drawn
And a full head of hair, and my cheap cologne
Would you take these words within, hold them to your bones?

Or would you keep them in your thoughts, like I’ve always done
Bring them out in dead of night, when those silos hum?
Thinking “oh, if you were here, I’d be safe from harm”

I keep my curtains drawn
As night time turns to dawn

I drive these familiar streets, rooftops made of tin
Golden glow of ember light, keeping warmth within
I can’t break a happy home, the wolves must be let in

Come on time, deliver me from my youthful tomes
Am I the only fool that’s left here who’s still not grown?
Baying, oh, I lived here, I’d be home by now

Waterholes and gravel roads and friends we used to know
Thinking big and making plans and going to a show
Now I’m lost without a map, heading right off-road

And I should be home by now
Together somehow

Darling don’t remember me for things I never did
I was just a low and lonely self-effacing kid
I know how your silent man shakes beneath his lid
I’m just your lonely boy
I’m like a broken toy, who can’t unwind

You ever drive the highways home, see those happy signs?
Families ‘round their dinner mats, friends singing Auld Lang Syne
Did you ever recognise the sidewalks and the trees
Standing in the rain outside, big drops from the leaves
Thinking, “hey that could have been mine,
Man, that should have been me”
Now I have a special place in your ghost history

And I should be home by now
Together somehow
I should be home by now

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from 4 Songs, released December 1, 2009

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