Long way home - Written by Dell Sweet

Song Title: Long Way Home. Style: Alt

Verse 1

When I say I love you, it doesn't mean I love you at all... But I have this need to let you know that I... might fall... all the way...

I know that I might sometimes seem to be a contradiction... with me it has got to be hard... to sort truth from fiction... so much friction... I agree...

Hook

But I live in between... you and the love that overwhelms me.... Speaks to me... day and night...

Don't wanna break a rule that we made when we made this love, when we made this wall, when we made this right...

Don't want to step out on my own, try to find my way in darkness... 'cause it's a long way home... A long way home...

Instrumental ---------------------------- Short electric solo -----------------------------------------

Verse 2

When I say I need you, it doesn't get me closer to you... makes you step away in fear, 'cause you can't give nothing... might fall too

Why does it always have to be so complicated... Can't it just be what it is... This walk alone life is over rated... so I've stated... oh... to be free...

Hook

But I live in between... you and the love that overwhelms me.... Pulls at me... day and night...

Don't wanna break a rule that we made when we made this love, when we made this wall, when we started this fight...

Don't want to step out on my own, try to find my way with words... 'cause it's a long way home... long way home...

Instrumental ---------------------------- Long guitar acoustic and electric solo -----------------------

Verse3

Late, and another day has burned away to blackness... send along my happiness to you, but it doesn't mean what it used to mean when we... started this...

But I got to find a way to be okay with what you give to me... It's a gift anyway... and I am not too blind to see... you need to be free... even from us...

Instrumental -------------------------- Slow to Acoustic single to end ------------------------------------

Bridge

But sometimes late at night when I'm sitting all alone and the lights are down... nobody around...

I... Find myself writing notes I'll never post, never show, let them fall to pieces on the ground...

I want to find my way back to when we started this, but I don't know the way alone...

It's a long way home...

Hook

So I live in between... you and the love that you can... give to me.... heals me... day and night...

Don't wanna break a rule that we made when we made this love, when we made this wall... And it's... hard to see from this height...

Don't want to step out on my own, fly down through this blackness... 'cause it's a long way home... long way home...

Why I Wrote It:

It is tough to put into words what love feels like. Sometimes two people can stand at the same door and see different things, or only see what they allow themselves to see. I have had so many doors of my own that I have closed to keep pain out, away, and it locks out people of course.

I understand it because I have done it, not because I like it, or agree with it, but how do you hide? Heal? Get ready for the next love? The problem is all that you miss with that door shut, or the blinders on. Yeah, the pain is safely away, but so is life...