Lyrics

Listening From Afar

[vs1]
someday I need to make my peace with my hometown
convince myself I'm not a stranger now
before my kids are grown and all the old folks gone
before I find I can't go home to my hometown

[chorus]
I can't blame them if they never knew me
can't accuse them for being only who they are
can't say I know why their words still cut right through me
when I've only been listening from afar

[vs2]
I hope the pain can be erased from my hometown
know there's lots of good that I should remember now
but the dreams that seemed were all I had to call my own
went to someone else who was more at home in my hometown

[instrumental verse]
[chorus]
[repeat vs1]
(c) Loren Harder 2002