Long Walk Home
Bruce Springstee n
Last night I stood
at your doorstep
Trying to figure out
what went wrong
You just slipped something
into my palm and you were gone
I could smell the same
deep green of summer
Bove me the same night
sky was glowin
In the distance I could see
the town where I was born
It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
A long walk home
In town I pass Sal's grocery
Barber shop on South Street
I looked in their faces
They're all rank strangers to me
Well Veteran's Hall high
upon the hill
Stood silent and alone
The diner was
shuttered and boarded
With a sign that just said gone
It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
<interlude DF>
Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason
to begin again
My father said
Son we're lucky in this town
It's a beautiful place
to be born
It just wraps
it's arms around you
Nobody crowds you and
nobody goes it alone
Your flag flyin'
over the courthouse
Means certain
things are set in stone
Who we are what we'll do
and what we won't
It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling
don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home