Sing Me Home (v2)

[Verse 1]

By the old stone bridge where the brown water bends

I counted the names of my long-lost friends

A paper-wrapped letter, a coat on a chair

Small things kept saying that you once were there

[Pre-Chorus]

I carry the morning in a battered tin cup

When the road gets heavy, I still rise up

[Chorus]

Sing me home, let the river roll slow

Past every sorrow I used to know

Sing me home, where the tall palms sway

I’ll find my people at the close of day

[Verse 2]

The market wakes early, red dust on the lane

A child draws a circle beside the train

From a doorway, somebody calls out my name

And the wound in my chest doesn’t feel quite the same

[Pre-Chorus]

I carry the morning in a battered tin cup

When the road gets heavy, I still rise up

[Chorus]

Sing me home, let the river roll slow

Past every sorrow I used to know

Sing me home, where the tall palms sway

I’ll find my people at the close of day

[Bridge]

If the night takes the road from my sight

I’ll follow the drum of a distant light

No chain can hold what the heart sets free

No far-off shore can erase memory

[Final Chorus]

Sing me home, let the river roll slow

Past every sorrow I used to know

Sing me home, where the tall palms sway

I’ll find my people at the close of day

[Outro]

At the close of day

I’ll find my people

At the close of day