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J. Dale Walker - Going Home

from Round 27, Week 2 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This is a really sad song that just kinda came out this week. I just started listening to John Prine, and I don't know if I hit the mark of the assignment. But it's a pretty tune, and based on the experience of a friend of mine. He lost his wife three years ago, he's a single dad to a really sweet little girl, and my heart goes out to the guy because I can't imagine what it's like. It's another bare bones recording, warts and all. One take on everything because time away from the kids is still challenging to find these days, so don't judge my hamfisted guitar playing.

lyrics

Opened up a music box you left when you went away
Chimed away a broken tooth a lullaby of day
Filled my head with empty words and visions of blue jeans
Don’t much care ‘bout what it’s worth and e’en less ‘bout what it means

Three years since you left me there at the alter of our dreams
Hear your voice a’singing out with breathless pearly wings
Going home
Going home
Going home

Little girl’s picked herself up she didn’t talk for half a year
She likes to talk to you, pretends this music box your ear
Seen it happen so often I thought I’d have a try
All I got was this here song and one hell of a bad cry

Three years since you left me there at the alter of our dreams
Hear your voice a’singing out with breathless pearly wings
Going home
Going home
Going home

Cross the lonely universe where Heaven meets the end
Send a message through the dark a prayer on the wind
Solar flares and nebula churn notes upon their breeze
Send my word to Avalon across the vacant seas

One day soon when time has had its ravaging discourse
I’ll fly to you on stellar winds to join you at the source
I’ll be going home
Going home
Going home

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from Round 27, Week 2, released April 6, 2020

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