Homeward String

Your boots by the door

Dust on your knees

You look like a mile

That finally sees me

I set the plate down slow

Like a prayer for two

And the whole old house

Turns back to you

You let out a breath

That I know by heart

Like a screen door creak

In the dark

Come on home

Come on home

Right where you belong

Come on home

Come on home

I’ve been holding on (holding on)

To your name

Like a flame

There’s a crack in the mug

By the sink on the left

You still use that one

Like it’s all you kept

I watch your hands shake

Then settle in mine

Like a hard rain easing

On a fence line

You don’t have to say

What the road has done

I can read it all

In the way you come

Come on home

Come on home

Right where you belong

Come on home

Come on home

I’ve been holding on (holding on)

To your name

Like a flame

If the world went cold

And the fields went dry

I’d still leave the porch

For your step outside

Take off that burden

Lay it down slow

Stay here a while

Let the hurt go

Come on home

Come on home

Right where you belong

Come on home

Come on home

I’ve been holding on (holding on)

To your name

Like a flame

Come on home

Come on home

To this little light

Come on home

Come on home

You don’t have to fight (don’t have to fight)

Not tonight

Not tonight