[00:08.440]It's desert ice outside but this diner has thawed my ears
[00:14.910]Hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile when the waitress hears
[00:22.230]That I was born in north carolina
[00:26.340]Not an hour from her home town
[00:30.010]And we used to play the same pizza parlor pinball
[00:37.780]And there's a glance in time suspended as I wonder how it is
[00:45.280]We've been swept up just by circumstance to where the coyote lives
[00:52.920]Where my days are strips of highway
[00:56.880]And she's wiping tables down
[01:00.680]Holding on and still waiting for that windfall
[01:08.860]But I've come home
[01:16.040]Even though I've never had so far to go
[01:23.810]I've come home
[01:39.410]I pay the check and leave the change from a crumpled ten-dollar bill
[01:44.620]Head across the street where vacancy is burning in neon still
[01:51.770]Well the night eats up my body heat
[01:55.380]And there's no sign of another
[01:58.840]And I find myself slipping down into that black
[02:06.490]But things are good I've got a lot of followers of my faith
[02:12.610]I've got a whole congregation living in my head these days
[02:20.270]And I'm preaching from the pulpit
[02:24.600]To cries of“Amen brother”
[02:27.630]Closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back
[02:32.560]And I've come home
[02:38.980]Even though I swear I've never been so alone
[02:46.960]I've come home
[03:02.020]I just want to be living as I'm dying
[03:06.420]Just like everybody here
[03:09.910]Just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile
[03:17.590]And I don't know where I'm driving to
[03:21.640]But I know I'm getting old
[03:25.210]And there's a blessing in every moment every mile
[03:49.040]Thin white terry bars of soap and a couple little plastic cups
[03:56.270]Old gideons bible in the nightstand drawer saying“Go on open up”
[04:03.990]Well I'll kneel down on the carpet here
[04:08.310]Though I never was sure of god
[04:12.260]Think tonight I'll give him the benefit of the doubt
[04:20.240]I switch off the lights and imagine that waitress outlined in the bed
[04:27.400]Her hair falling all around me
[04:31.750]I smile and shake my head
[04:35.190]Well we all write our own endings
[04:39.160]And we all have our own scars
[04:43.140]But tonight I think I see what it's all about
[04:51.050]Because I've come home
[05:06.490]I've come home