Home Again

Album: The Diving Board (2013)
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  • I'm counting on a memory to get me out of here
    I'm waiting for the fog around this spooky little town to clear
    All this time I spent being someone else's friend
    Just one more time, for old time's sake, I'd like to go back home again

    The world had seven wonders once upon a time
    It's sure enough the favored nations aided their decline
    And all around me I've seen times like it was back when
    But like back then, I'd say amen if I could get back home again

    If I could go back home, if I could go back home
    If I'd never left, I'd never have known
    We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end
    Spending all our time trying to get back home again

    Could have been a jailbreak and a spotlight hitting me
    Or was I just some nightclub singer, back in nineteen-sixty-three?
    In the old part of Valencia, on the coast of Spain
    Never tiring once of hearing songs about going home again

    If I could go back home, if I could go back home
    If I'd never left, I'd never have known
    We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end
    Spending all our time trying to get back home again

    If I could go back home, if I could go back home
    If I'd never left, I'd never have known
    We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end
    Spending all our time trying to get back home again Writer/s: Bernie Taupin, Elton John
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Teressa Gentry from Crawfordville Georgia Heard this on XM The Bridge for the first time. Such a great song and as usual Elton John takes me away. Love it.
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