Long Way Home

I can hear the rain beating on the window pane

And the wind keeps asking "when will I see you again?"

It's another memory of you

Of another night alone

It's another night in the year of the long way home

Wipers steady as a heartbeat

Thunder like a passing train

And the headlights picking out weeping willow

Crying on the shoulder again

It's another night on the back road

Stretched tight like skin on bone

It's another mile in the year of the long way home

And it's a long way, baby

It's a long way, I know

It's a rough road to travel

In the year of the long way home

When my hands can finally touch you

When you're in my arms to hold

When we're laying together laughing again

When the stories have all been told

When I reach across the table

Hold your hand inside my own

I can see an end to the year of the long way home

And it's a long way, baby

It's a long way, I know

It's a rough road to travel

In the year of the long way home

And it's a long way, baby

It's a long way, I know

But I can see an end to the year of the long way home