Song Description
An overnight train trip is a metaphor for the speaker's difficult journey back to somewhere--and someone--she prays will embrace her. A plaintive, passionate plea with a country waltz feel and tasteful slide guitar licks.
| Song Length |
5:42 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant, Restless |
Subject |
Loneliness, Trains |
| Similar Artists |
Joan Baez, Lucinda Williams |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Carry Me Home
Old platform echoes my footsteps
Hush sweeps down over the town
I sink to my seat, then I shut my eyes, strain for the sound
Deep, distant thunder the trainsong
Wind brings it soft to my ears
It rumbles around in my head and it runs out in tears
Please don't leave me
Broken lost and alone
Take me, keep me
Come carry me home
Rush down the rails in the darkness
Faithless, reckless in flight
If I hold on, I might make it to morning tonight
Dawn brings my into the station
Catch a glimpse of you there by the tracks
The brake squeal echoes my weariness, cries to you, I used all my strength crawling back
And I pray please don't leave me
Broken lost and alone
Take me, keep me
Come carry me home
Carry me
Please don't leave me
Broken lost and alone
Take me, keep me
Come carry me home
Carry me home