Long Road Back

It's a long road back, highway 49
And there's a whole lotta miles lying ahead and behind
I'm on my way and I'm running out of time
When I get back home, wonder who I'll see
Won't be no yellow ribbon tied around no tree
Nobody's gonna be there waiting for me

It's a long road back to where I'm from
Seven hundred Sundays in the Twilight Zone
I'm a prisoner condemned to roam
Long road back it'll be so strange
To see the same people shackled by the same old chains
And it's a long, long road back home

Well it has taken all I've got not to turn this car around
I wouldn't even mind should it break on down
Leave me on the highway twenty miles from town
When I see that exit sign, maybe I'll pass it by
I've got a wanderlust I need to satisfy
Spinning my wheels on my intoxicating ride

It's a long road back to where I'm from
Seven hundred Sundays in the Twilight Zone
I'm a prisoner condemned to roam
Long road back it'll be so strange
To see the same people shackled by the same old chains
And it's a long, long road back home

Could it be a fantasy that I'm even alive
Maybe I took a turn in the night
Crossed over to the other side
We live as we dream, dream as we die

It's a long road back to where I'm from
Seven hundred Sundays in the Twilight Zone
I'm a prisoner condemned to roam
Long road back it'll be so strange
To see the same people shackled by the same old chains
And it's a long, long road here I go
Down that long long road back home