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Way Too Long

from A Way to Get Back Home by Craig Manning

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It's midnight, I'm going for a drive
Out into the backstreets of this town I've called my life
I'm driving slow, I've got nowhere to go
But I know that come tomorrow, I'll be gone
So, I won't sleep, I'll walk out my front door
And take the long way home until I know what I'm here for
With "All My Friends" looping on the stereo
I shed a tear this place is home
And you've been my world for so long
But now I'm off to find a brand new start

It's been way too long
Since I cruised your streets that night
Feeling younger than forever
Feeling born to run for life
And I heard my first song in your forest halls
And I played my first chords between cinder walls
But I know that there's no going back
And it's been way too long

It's 2:00 all my things have been in boxes for 12 hours now
Come 2:00 in the afternoon tomorrow I'll be a resident of the highway
So I'll stop by a house I've known forever
Of a friend who's moving off to New York in September
And we'll reminisce about the trouble that we caused
Back when we were to young to know
What we were gonna be when we grew up
Long before this town was fading in the dark

It's been way too long
Since I cruised your streets that night
Since I broke into my high school
Just to remember what it was like
To walk nervously to class on the very first day
Or to sing a song on the very first stage
That changed my world forever
And I don't know how to get back there
But it's been way too long

I don't believe in moving on
I think that youth is always there
Obscured by fears of growing old
But I must go away and write a different song
Still I'll keep singing words about
A brave new world along the road to home

It's been way too long
Since I looked upon your grace
Your sunsets and your cloudless skies
Your miles of shining lakes
And I took my first drink in your loving arms
And I kissed that girl beneath your bright blues stars
And I know that it's only a memory
But it's been way too long

It's 10 to six, the night is done
The light is breaking through the trees
The summer's gone, nobody on the road
And nobody on the beach
Feel the sand in between my toes
Feel the waves hitting soft and slow, it's home
But I've gotta go, gotta hit the road
But I'll be back before I know it, I suppose

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from A Way to Get Back Home, released April 19, 2016

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