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

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

A long dirt road a faithful dog

And an old white house

Yesterdays are many and tomorrow's filled with doubt

And I still 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 often hungered for the way you feel

And the smell of summer thunder around

And the quiet winter fields

I have walked with madness and lay down with lies

And learned how to stand but better yet to fly

I have loved so many things in this great wide world

But the simple sounds of

Home are the sweetest things I've heard

For right here the means are humble

But hearts are proud

And I 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

A long dirt road a faithful dog

And an old white house