I'm up and I'm out
I don't know where I'm going but I'll tell you when I get there,
cause I'm tired of this place
And I'll send you my love,
cause it's all I ever wanted to share
in the first place
Homeward Bound, I'm a hobo
And I'm looking for the piskies
we prayed to for good crops,
and the great-great-grandson
of my brother long gone.
Across the ocean, past the mountains,
and the forest we played in 1652.
I'll go to the town I lived in 1872,
when I was someone else.
I'm going home.
And in 30 years when I come back,
I'll see you with the son you always wanted
I hope you named him Adam,
like you always said you would.
Yo
Fear is at my heels,
like an eager puppy nipping at my ankles.
Fear is in my throat,
like a sore, a cold.
Fear weighs on my shoulders,
like a heavy shroud.
Fear wraps its arms around me
with the strength of a long-lost friend.
Fear blinds me,
with the light of the brightest sun,
and the pitch black of the deepest abyss.
Fear deafens me,
like a thudding bass.
Fear swallows me whole,
like a monstrous ghoulish creature.
Upon my fair lady my eyes are laid,
with eyes like the seas that shimmer
and fiery hair subdued in braid,
she is bright like an earthbound star,
while the daylights about her fade.
I'm up and I'm out
I don't know where I'm going but I'll tell you when I get there,
cause I'm tired of this place
And I'll send you my love,
cause it's all I ever wanted to share
in the first place
Homeward Bound, I'm a hobo
And I'm looking for the piskies
we prayed to for good crops,
and the great-great-grandson
of my brother long gone.
Across the ocean, past the mountains,
and the forest we played in 1652.
I'll go to the town I lived in 1872,
when I was someone else.
I'm going home.
And in 30 years when I come back,
I'll see you with the son you always wanted
I hope you named him Adam,
like you always said you would.
Yo
Fear is at my heels,
like an eager puppy nipping at my ankles.
Fear is in my throat,
like a sore, a cold.
Fear weighs on my shoulders,
like a heavy shroud.
Fear wraps its arms around me
with the strength of a long-lost friend.
Fear blinds me,
with the light of the brightest sun,
and the pitch black of the deepest abyss.
Fear deafens me,
like a thudding bass.
Fear swallows me whole,
like a monstrous ghoulish creature.
Upon my fair lady my eyes are laid,
with eyes like the seas that shimmer
and fiery hair subdued in braid,
she is bright like an earthbound star,
while the daylights about her fade.