You Can't Go Home

YOU CAN'T GO HOME
(Will Kimbrough/Jeff Finlin)

Don't return to your native town You cannot sing your truth the same By the village stream, a woman waits
To call you by your childhood name She cannot see the things you've seen Outside the past, across the foam
From anger's door to the healing cage She cannot see you can't go home

She cannot hear or say goodbye Or feel your heart break right two She cannot weigh the angry years
What you said, forgive you, too She cannot breathe the empty skies The kiss your cheek and whisper "no"
The years you fought the crosstown noise She cannot see you can't go home

Come to me, dear, taste my tears Nothing's mine now, nothing's here Ask them where to go to hold And they don't seem to really know

You cannot hear the wailing wall The Delta moaning in the night The land a-crashing to the sea The railroad tears and useless might The voice that tells me I'm no one Coming off the streets of Rome The blue light and the setting sun She cannot feel you there alone She cannot see you can't go home