Story Behind The Song
As you look back on life, you realize how many rivers you have crossed and how many bridges have been burnt. Following paths to dead ends instead of to your roots, where love always was. You realize that when you go come home again, relationships and people and places have changed. You can't truly go home again. Life moves on without you.
Song Description
Leaving home and returning years later to find that everything has changed and you don't fit in. "You can't go home again."
| Song Length |
2:52 |
Genre |
Rock - Easy Listening, Blues - Modern |
| Tempo |
Very Slow (Under 70) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Depressing, Poignant |
Subject |
Change, Loneliness |
| Similar Artists |
Robbie Robertson, Smokey Robinson |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
Rain
Ride a slow train through the night rain
Trying to get back to where I should be
My sleep was taken
So I sit here awaken full of memories of home
Before I began to roam
So very far from home
As we slow down
Next stop is Sad Town
I spent years and years just walking those streets
Faking a smile
Well all the while pining for home
And those sweet sweet memories
That set my heart so at ease
Some think it's better on the other side
So fools like us take that long lonely lonely ride
So you push all your sadness aside and ride
A little farther down the line
Farther down the line
The sun still refused to shine
You think about your mom and dad
And all the good times you had
Your siblings too
The things you used to do
To help time pass
Have shattered like broken glass
Time goes on so fast
You thought love was better on the other side
You didn't have to take that long lonely lonely ride
If you had only kept those home fires in sight
You would have slept better at night
If you had only kept those home fires in sight
Instead you ride farther down the line
Farther time down the line