The Way Back Home

Music & Lyrics / Jude Hawkens

Arrangements / Jude Hawkens

© Jude Hawkens / Native Son Music  BMI

 

Been lookin’ backwards for too long

I fear my life has gone too wrong

Am I ever gonna find me                                     

Am I ever gonna be free

 

Feels like I’m singing that same song

Th’ age-old struggle between right and wrong

How many chances am I gonna miss

in my life.

 

A younger me wants to hide away

Shelter from things that I cannot say

The open road ahead so ripe with change

Looking back through tempered chains

 

I need to find a way to start again

I need a way to pay the ferryman

Crossin’ that river to the other side

Goodbye.

 

     Wheels turning, keep rollin’ on

     Shift into drive, baby I’m gone.

     This moment, I'll face it alone

     Find my way home again

     Back home again

 

I read a book by the riverbend

Said you can’t ever go home again

So far away from all I’ve ever known

A brand new start keeps me movin’ on.

 

No matter which way the wheels spin

I’m headin’ back to where I’ve always been

Heading back to what I’ve always known.

Back home.  

 

     Wheels turning, keep rollin’ on

     Shift into drive, baby I’m gone.

     This moment, we face it alone

     Find my way home again

     Back home again

 

     Wheels turning, keep rollin’ on

     Shift into drive, baby I’m gone.

     This journey, my journey alone

     Find my way home again

     Back home again

​

​