by Robert Earl Keen, Jr.



You never liked this place where we'd been living all alone

So you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket home

And leaving never hurts as much as being left behind



Chorus:

I would change my life

I would make it right

I would change my life

If you would only change your mind



I have spent my hours on some misbegotten dream

I have spent my money on some foolish-hearted things

I have spent my memories on old and ? wine



Birds are flying south

To spend the wintertime

The skies are turning blue to grey

The fire we started here

Will soon be burning out

And it gets colder everyday



I wish that I could find the words to make you come back home

I wish that I could say the things you needed for so long

I wish that you could see me now, maybe then you'd find