Home Sweet Home - Travis Clark

I look out across corn rows from a dirt road Baby's kicked back in the front seat Got her bare fit hanging out the window We take a trip down memory lane Dirt on the truck, no chance of rain My third generation farming friends all pray that its on the way And if it don't show up, we'll be alright 'Cause folks round here wouldn't take a million For a different life Home sweet home I thank my lucky stars at night I was raised down here and raised up right And my pride, you've got that right Home sweet home Where a little bit goes long way And we shut her down on sundays I won't ever get too far away From home sweet home Pull down to the cane bridge Park in the ditch Folks and poles are lined up A little kid holds a stringer up Got a mess of fish I drive away with a smile on my face Knowing that this place is blessed By God's amazing grace Home sweet home I thank my lucky stars at night I was raised down here and raised up right And my pride, you've got that right Home sweet home Where a little bit goes long way And we shut her down on sundays I won't ever get too far away From Home sweet home No matter where I go Or where the road might lead This little speck on the map, is always gonna be Home sweet home I thank my lucky stars at night I was raised down here and raised up right And my pride, you've got that right Home sweet home Where a little bit goes long way And we shut her down on sundays I won't ever get too far away From home sweet home Yeah, I'm coming home

Met this girl called Josephine and took her up on my machine We had a little fun and now we got a little one Had to get married, being chased out of town Found ourselves a place to live, we put all our money down Home Sweet Home, home sweet home Eleven floors up in a tower block Happy just to have a home I've gone and changed the lock on our home Nothing really worked out right Things got broke, they stayed that way None of our friends came around at night And little Sam got no place to play "We've got to get out of here, Bill" she said "I've been telling you all the while" When I came home from work that night She'd jumped out the window with our child From our Home Sweet Home, home sweet home Just a place to take a rest Just a place to make our nest We call it our home When the insurance money came through Seemed dirty didn't know what to do Took the cash went down the casino Down on the wheel on the double And I won, oh yes I won, like I never won before Bought myself a country house With an antique carved oak door It was Home Sweet Home, home sweet home Just a place to lay our head think of all those things we said About in our Home Sweet Home

Every day as heaven Moves further and further away Familiar blue eyes I once knew Turn a colder shade of grey Every day as heaven Moves further and further away Familiar words we used to share Seem so difficult to say And I am alone In a world of cold flesh Cold steel, cold stone I close up like a clam And shut the world out with the slam of the door To shut out all the fighting, all the hatred, all the war You just cannot stay calm When your soul screams less, but something always wants more What for? Every day as heaven Moves further and further away Familiar blue eyes I once knew Turn a colder shade of grey Every day as heaven Moves further and further away Familiar words we used to share Seem impossible to say Every day Every day Heaven moves further and further away Everyday Everyday Heaven is moving further and further away Every day Every day

The wood burns warm The house is still The music soothes And soon I will Look for in another What I'd found in you What we had in each other But you couldn't live through Old love burns My body aches And I'm taking time For as long as it takes As the sunset fades And the moonlight breaks I'll try and put right All my mistakes A throwaway world A throwaway life I'm glad I'm by myself tonight When all passion's spent In the one you love When there's no guiding hands From a god above When all that's left Is never enough But there was a time That I can't find Filled with light From a love inside Filled with love It was a world so wide And we'd run from one To the other side Filled with laughter And a love so bright Now I wait for something By hushed firelight Something that would tell me Everything's all right A throwaway world A throwaway life I'm glad I'm here by myself tonight Where the wood's all warm And the fire burns bright And I tell myself everything will be all right As the sunset fades And the moonlight breaks The world is a small warm room tonight