There And Back - Carrie Newcomer

There and back I have traveled

Here and there I have walked

And I have found more beauty than I’d ever had thought

But I still dream often of that place I know

Deeper in my bones than most places ever go.

I can see home shining like a silver star

Like paradise calling me from oh so far

When I shade my eyes I can just make it out

A long dirt road, a faithful dog, and an old white house

I have survived the bustle, but I still like the lights

I have stared up in wonder at countless shining nights

But no matter where I go, I find there I am The same old stranger in an even stranger land

I can see home shining like a silver star

Like paradise calling me from oh so far

When I shade my eyes I can just make it out

A long dirt road, a faithful dog, and an old white house

Often have hungered for the way you feel

And the smell of summer thunder and the quiet winter fields

I have walked with madness and lay down with lies

And learned how to stand, but better yet how to fly.

I can see home shining like a silver star

Like paradise calling me from oh so far

When I shade my eyes I can just make it out

A long dirt road, a faithful dog, and an old white house

Yesterdays are many and tomorrow’s filled with doubt

And still I don’t know what this whole darn thing is about

But you what you are and it’s better to find out.

What it is that you love most of all.

I have loved so many things in this great wide world

And the simple sounds of home are the sweetest things I’ve heard

For right here the means are humble but hearts are proud

And don’t mind standing up and saying right out loud

I can see home shining like a silver star

Like paradise calling me from oh so far

When I shade my eyes I can just make it out

A long dirt road, a faithful dog, and an old white house