The Way Home

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Lying still, head awake,  
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eyes closed tight and thoughts ablaze, 
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It’s coursing like a river going through my mind, 
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taking hits from the hands of time. 

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Silence can be so odd, 
           F#m                   E        A 
it’s like looking around for the eyes of God, 
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There’s a truth somewhere that I just can’t find, 
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taking hits from the hands of time. 

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And I wonder if you were here right now, 
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would you sit with me beneath this darkened shroud? 
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In this prison built from bricks of shame, 
          F#m          E       A 
I want to tear it down to the frame. 

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If you smash your life up against the wall, 
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you want to break it like a bottle and just let go, 
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But I don’t know if there’s a God at all, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more. 


         F#m                            D 
And the hours go by endlessly, and the days were spent breathlessly, 
         F#m                                  A 
and the nights begging for some sleep. Oh the endless time alone. 
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And the faces of the boys in line, there was fear in their eyes, and they all, 
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We just want to find a way home            home 

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home          home 

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I can hear the birds, see the light outside, 
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stand up like a man and swallow my pride, 
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I can write these words down in a rhyme. 
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They’ve been beaten from me by the hands of time. 

         A              D        A  
I don’t know why it’s always this way, 
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and I hang my head low in the light of day, 
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All I know is I’m tired of being afraid, 
         F#m                       E          A 
I got to walk this road on these bricks I’ve laid. 

         F#m                                  D 
All the trumpets and the marching bands, the thunder claps and trembling hands, 
        F#m                                  A 
all the people stood up in the stands, and I just felt so alone, 
            F#m                                    E  
’Cause the halos looked like rusted chains in the light  As we screamed in the dark, 
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I just wanted to find a way home 
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home 

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The truth is I’m not brave or sure, 
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I just know I can’t live like this no more, 
         A                   D       A  
I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more. 


A                     D        A  
The truth is I’m not brave or sure, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more, 
         A                   D       A  
I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more. 


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And I don’t know if this road will end at your door, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more, 
        A                  D        A  
I don’t even know what I’m heading for, 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more. 
       F#m                    E       A 
I just know I can’t live like this no more.