[00:06.8][00:01.5]Vienna teng
[00:06.8][00:04.7]homecoming
[00:15.5]it's desert ice outside but this diner has thawed my ears
[00:22.7]hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile when the waitress hears
[00:28.8]that I was born in North Carolina
[00:33.9]not an hour from her home town
[00:37.8]and we used to play the same pizza parlor pinball
[00:45.7]and there's a glance in time suspended as I wonder how it is
[00:51.4]we've been swept up just by circumstance to where the coyote lives
[00:58.6]where my days are strips of highway
[01:04.8]and she's wiping tables down
[01:08.5]holding on and still waiting for that windfall
[01:16.8]but I've come home
[01:23.9]even though I've never had so far to go
[01:31.7]I've come home
[01:47.8]I pay the check and leave the change from a crumpled ten-dollar bill
[01:54.7]head across the street where VACANCY is burning in neon still
[02:02.6]well the night eats up my body heat
[02:06.3]and there's no sign of another
[02:09.8]and I find myself slipping down into that black
[02:18.1]but things are good I've got a lot of followers of my faith
[02:25.0]I've got a whole congregation living in my head these days
[02:32.8]and I'm preaching from the pulpit
[02:37.4]to cries of a€?Amen brothera€?
[02:41.5]closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back
[02:48.7]and I've come home
[02:56.0]even though I swear I've never been so alone
[03:03.8]I've come home
[03:18.9]I just want to be living as I'm dying
[03:23.2]just like everybody here
[03:26.4]just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile
[03:34.1]and I don't know where I'm driving to
[03:38.5]but I know I'm getting old
[03:42.0]and there's a blessing in every moment every mile
[04:06.1]thin white terry bars of soap and a couple little plastic cups
[04:12.8]old Gideons Bible in the nightstand drawer saying a€?Go on open upa€?
[04:20.2]well I'll kneel down on the carpet here
[04:24.8]though I never was sure of God
[04:28.5]think tonight I'll give Him the benefit of the doubt
[04:36.6]I switch off the lights and imagine that waitress outlined in the bed
[04:43.6]her hair falling all around me
[04:47.5]I smile and shake my head
[04:51.3]well we all write our own endings
[04:55.0]and we all have our own scars
[04:59.4]but tonight I think I see what it's all about
[05:10.0]because I've come home
[05:22.7]I've come home
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