Leaving

Jet fuel and traffic lines

Pulling up to the delta signs

Distant shape of my hometown

Black stain where the wheels touch down

I pick up the morning news

I pass the man who's never shined my shoes

Through security and to the train

That will take me to the aeroplane

Count the miles on the highway

The sum of all my days

There's a postcard, there's a call

And there's a picture for your bedroom wall

But do you ever wonder through and through?

Who's that person standing next to you?

And after all the nights apart

Is there a home for a traveling heart

But if I weren't leaving you

I don't know what I would do

But the more I go, the less I know

Will the fire still burn on my return?

Keep the path lit on the only road I know

Honey, all I know to do is go

A cup of coffee and my bags are packed

The same vow not to look back

Familiar emptiness inside

As the distances grow wide

And though I vow to memorize

The last look in your loving eyes

It's here dusk and there dawn

Oh it's like a curtain getting slowly drawn

But if I weren't leaving you

I don't know what I would do

But the more I go, the less I know

Will the fire still burn on my return?

Keep the path lit on the only road I know

Honey, all I know to do is go

But if I weren't leaving you

I don't know what I would do

But the more I go it seems the less I know

Will the fire still burn on my return

Keep the path lit on the only road I know

Honey, all I know to do is go