Porch Chime

Take me to market, sell me by noon

All of your troubles will be over soon, with a

Morning breeze on a front porch chime sing

I never heard a more beautiful ring

Ah ohh ah ooh 

I feel all the others have a story to tell 

They've been through troubles and living in hell 

But me I love my folks, a girl and a dog

We made our way through this quarantine fog

Ah ooh ah ooh 

Lock em all out, barricade ourselves in

Hope you've got flippers and know how to swim 

Ten thousand miles to the land of the free 

Home of the brave, they got all the vaccine that you want

All you want

They got all that you want, all that you want

The floor boards are sticky but I don't mind 

The curtains are torn I pretend that I'm blind 

I listen to the birds and other clichés 

Am I a desperate bastard son trying to fill up a page and move on

I'm just trying to move on

Trying to move on

An old friend rang me on a telephone, which I

Hadn't paid service since the world was shut off 

He said

"There's always a snake you'll be tempted to chase 

You'll never catch it 'less you run your own race 

Head on, run it head on, yeah head on

They say this is meant to be at the centre of it all 

For country music but it's all been a blur 

One long year making gardens and tea 

I bought a drill and hammer yes I got (Real) handy

Ah oooh ah ooh, Ah oooh ah ooh

I drank Manhattans in the freezing cold 

I stood there and watched the sky unfold with 

Thunder and lightning and twisters, how fun 

We got to go now baby, we gotta run

Ah ooh,  baby we got a run

Ahhhhh Ah

When we left the homeland, the fires were still burning 

We were doing shows to raise ' them some coin 

We had Mr Plant as our VIP guest in the green room 

Now we can't top that, hey, what's the point

Ah ooh ah ooh 

There was but a time when the world was as one 

Doing what we can to save each other 

But it quickly changed in all different ways 

Some rolled out a cure, and others still wait 

To go home, we wait to go home

Yeah wait to go home, Oh Oh wait to go home

Now I found myself a crowd of one 

A red hornet on a fly screen with his big stingers on

He said: " Play me something, something I know

One I can sing all the way home 

Ah oho ohhh , all the way home

While this goes on

It all still goes on

I learned how to grow my own food in the ground

Built a fence in our yard to keep everyone out 

The hands that I have, have never been so clean 

This stuff strips off skin just like kerosene 

Ah oho ohhh, ah oho ohhh

Zoom in from space, turn your video on 

No driving to the workplace the office is gone

It's a new way of living and I can't complain 

Except one day I dream to travel again…..and go 

Home, I wanna go home, I wanna go home, I wanna go home

I wanna go home, I wanna go home, I wanna go home

I wanna go home