The Long Way Home

Escapism, growing pains, trick girls

The Long Way Home

 

I made a left turn just to spite the right way

Chalk it up to bitterness, I felt so bitter that day

A minor mistake, yes I’m sure I’ve made bigger ones before

And I know I’ll make more

Passion lives and dies like a flower, loses vigor

I’m tired of having to be being bigger than what I am

It’s an unhealthy act of self-neglect

A criminal, a pitiful pretense

You won’t be seeing me 

Again

 

So I took the long way home

And bandaged my own wounds

They say all roads lead to Rome

And I think I’ll get there soon

See, I came across this path

And I don’t want you to wait

‘Cause I’m gone and I just want you to know

That I took the long way home

 

The calm that follows the storm is so placid

But it must’ve hurt; I’m sure that it did

The damage is somewhat a relief if the truth is to be said

Now I know all my limitations are within my head

These things come and go like rainbows, what’s kind of strange though

Is the glowing facade, the halo that you wear

That road won’t take me anywhere

I’ve got time but no more energy to spare

And as time passes by, I won’t even really

Care

 

So I took the long way home

I had all the time to spend
There’s no way to turn back now

But I’ll get there in the end

Still, as the rain begins to fall

I find that we’re all on our own

I’ll call you now and again from somewhere on the road

I took the long way home

 

In this town I’ve long outgrown

I took the long way home