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Robbie Fulks
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Never Come Home
Baby, time has run some changes
Maybe i remembered wrong
Stands to reason ive grown softer
I was married for so long
I took a chill late last April
Lost 30 pound by mid july
Thought that the old place was the answer
Just one last thing that i could try
I had scarcely laid my bag down
When my misjudgment hit me square
I was welcomed like a guilty prisoner
Old grievances fouled the air
400 miles mean nothing
One mans troubles are his own
The land is run down and ragged
I should have never come home
Theres a couple babys in the craddle
Sisters gone east for a time
Mamas boilin water by the wood stove
Neighbors stealin glances through the blinds
Now shes lookin at me through their eyes
And i see the thought she hides in vien
All my years in the sick and tongue and the fallen
Have made this cancer in my brain
Cheap coal spilling from the hill tops
The earth is shaking from them old drag lines
But when these little towns lie sleeping
Its like it mustve been before man kind
Watch the wild mid summer moon light
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Drifting slow across the lawn
Catch the outlines of creation
As morning comes on
Now theres cousins droppin in from riceville
With self regard, these baptists rarely shine
Mama gives them high admiration
But contempt is the best that i can find
400 miles mean nothin
One mans troubles are his own
Sick and torn from wife and children
I should have never come home
I hear them whispering my name
Late at night beneath my room
Their voices rise as they grow drunker
Black vultures gathering at my tomb
Humbled by the ancient jewish prophets
Dazzled by the distance network feilds
Born by the promise of tomorrow
They'll bury me with all speed
Now i was born in new york city
Down here im near a slave
Cant hardley take in one more body
Cant afford another grave
400 miles mean nothing
One mans troubles are his own
This land is run down and ragged
I should have never come home.
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