Jet fuel and traffic lines

Pulling up to the Delta signs

Distant shape of my hometown

Black stain where the wheels touch down.

I pick up the morning news,

Pass the man who's never shined my shoes

Through security and to the train

That'll take me to the airplane.



Count the miles on the highway

The sum of all my days

There's a postcard, there's a call,

There's a picture for your bedroom wall.

But do you ever wonder through and through

Who's that person standing next to you?

And after all the nights apart

Is there a home for a travelling heart?



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But if I weren't leaving you,

I don't know what I'd do.

But the more I go, the less I know,

Will the fire still burn on my return?

Keep the path lit on the only road I know...

Honey, all I know to do is go.



A cup of coffee and my bags are packed

Same vow not to look back.

Familiar emptiness inside

As the distances grow wide.

And though I vow to memorize

The last look in your loving eyes,

It's here dusk and there dawn...oh,

It's like a curtain getting slowly drawn.



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