Where Home Was

A Lyric

Where Home Was 

Verse 1

I don't want to go any more, times have changed

Where home is, it used to be, no longer home anymore

Yes times have really changed, no longer home at all

Four seasons of winds and its torrent of storms

They blow and whip its trail of hurt across my soul

Pre-chorus 1

Mama baked her bread in coffee cans

Cinnamon rolls, aroma filled house

Bacon, eggs, hash brown potatoes 

All cooking on the stove  

Can't wait to say prayer and eat  

Chorus 1

How many times we've said the same old prayer

Over and over again

How this old farm fell apart after dad passed away, 

Dancing on through heaven gates

Verse 2

These horizons, her skies never lie

I see dad in its eyes

Every night I hold back tears and I cry

I say another prayer 

Whispering  - why did you have to leave

Pre-chorus 2

Why did you have to die

Why did you have to die 

When I hadn't even grown up

Now I try to run this old run down farm

Chorus 2 

How many times we've said the same old prayer

Over and over again

How this old farm fell apart after dad passed away, 

Dancing on through heaven gates

Bridge

I wish I hadn't grown up so darn fast

I married Betty Sue, now she's with child

Verse 3

Mama now lies beside you

We just got done burying her yesterday

Now I shed a tear that I held back

I wish you were here to show me what to do

I wish you were here to help me grow up

Pre-chorus 3

The little ones now run wild

Yes Bette Sue had four more babies

They keep asking me why I cry

When I look up into the horizon

Of corn fields all now standing high

Chorus 3

How many times we've said the same old prayer

Over and over again

How this old farm fell apart after dad passed away, 

Dancing on through heaven gates

Coda - Fade off

Now we live in a big white house, we eat from the beef

Raised here on this farm, I bow my head in prayer

Thanking God for helping me grow up to be the man

The man my pa would be proud of

© Copyright Arthur Henn 2010

Reviews

[Cherrie Palmer]

perfect ending I loved it

[cfix]

Such wonderful Lyrics here,
Touching and sincere. Like this Arthur.
Nicely written!