Soon to Come Home

Soon to Come Home

Soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
To see what you've got left behind

Soon to come home, darlin'
Soon to come home,
Don't you see that you've left me behind?

Pack up all of your belongings and
store them away
in a closet-sized room
where we've decided to stay.

Soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
To see what you've left far behind.

The kettle whistles on the stove
and the lamplight is low.
Your book has already been shelved.

Pages are blank
and the story left untold
silent in the middle of the night.

Well we're off to our dreams where the future unfolds
days long and warm and
the nights dark and cold

Soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
To see what you've got left behind

Soon to come home, darlin'
Soon to come home,
Don't you see that you've left me behind?

Your travels have taken you
to a place in your mind,
deserted by the ones that you love.

Uncertain and lost,
you turn back on the road,
hesitating as you open the door.

All the cupboards you find empty
and the drawers have been cleaned out,
but my heart is not vacant or
obscured by doubt

'Cause you're soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
To see what you've left far behind.

Soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
Don't you see that you've left me behind.

The summer is long in the north by the sea,
The coastline is jagged and bare.
Now that we've lived out our lifetimes
and learned to recede
like the tide ebbing low as we stare

Out toward the pink horizon, kissed by the sun
that rises and falls
and sets slow as we run.

'Cause we're soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
To see what we've got left behind.

Soon to come home, darlin',
Soon to come home,
To see what we've left far behind.