Song Description

I (the writer) disappears, because he is tired of the same old thing; the responsibilities of life. He realzies all he wants is home, with his love, and returns.

Lyrics

The Night I Disappeared
by Steve Kunzman Ó 2003



On the night I disappeared
I ran two red lights
Past the Hideaway Bar
Where the crazy boys fight
I just kept my foot down
Ignored the breaks
?til I ran out of gas
Out near the Great Lakes

I abandoned that Dodge
By an old highway sign
Took out all the papers
That said it was mine
Took a ride on a Greyhound
Rode it straight to the sea
Where I stopped for the first time
And realized it was me

(chorus)
I was tired of runnin?
On a soft road of sand
With feet that seemed shackled
And chained to my hands
I know there?s no fast way
No fast way home
It seems I?ll be walkin?
Walkin? alone

Sat in a tin diner
And I watched the TV
It didn?t say I was missing
Or even set free
Then I reached in my pocket
Grabbed a hold of that ring
And the key to our front door
On an old guitar string





(chorus)
I was tired of runnin?
On a soft road of sand
With feet that seemed shackled
And chained to my hands
I know there?s no fast way
No fast way home
It seems I?ll be walkin?
Walkin? alone

(bridge)
There?ll be no yellow taxis
And no silver trains
No red eye express
On fast air-o-planes
I?ll just tie up my laces
And turn my back to the sea
I?m comin? home baby
If you?ll still have me

?Cause I left you wonderin?
Where could he have gone
What could be the reason
Have things gone that wrong
But when I open the screen door
And hold you once again
I?ll be at my destination
This runnin? will end

(chorus)
There?ll be no more runnin?
On a soft road of sand
With feet that seemed shackled
And chained to my hands
I know there?s no fast way
No fast way home
But I won?t be walkin?
Walkin? alone

I won?t be walkin?
Walkin? alone
No, no I won?t be walkin?
Walkin? alone