Gangstagrass - You Can Never Go Home Again (Live at Bourbon on Division, Chicago, 2018)
I remember twenty years ago I was sitting in that court roomMy charges I could not defend
The last thing the judge said to me as he handed down my sentence
Was You can never go home again
Never go home, never go home
You can never go home again
And I agreed with everything that the judge said
If you come back around, I'm going out like Judge Dredd
What was in your head when you made those choices?
I can only hope that you were plagued by voices
When you made those decisions didn't listen to the one
that was on your side when you started to slide
...When you arrived back at home, Momma was broken down to the bone, 'cause you were gone so long
...
But now our babyboy is back in the house
You can see all the smiles...
All of a sudden you disappeared again
What you...
...
When you've done your time and you come back out that doorway
You will not find a loved one or a friend
You may return to the place where the people used to know you
But you can never go home again
Never go home, never go home
You can never go home again
Bruh, the things these eyes have seen would horrify the strongest
Went and left a home I haven't been to in the longest
Led a life by the sword, force to fall upon it
The kites flew, there was nobody left to correspond with
Familiar faces either passed on or flipped
So there wasn't much left for me to do but dip
Too many years lost off the lies of a snitch
So it was either do a bid or end up lying in a ditch
Left to walk across the land as a mystery
Every new town, reinvent a new history
I turned my back on my past just to get to see a new day
Reframe my identity
To get to sleep at night, I need a bout a fifth at least
The dirty deeds that I did just to get to eat
Melancholy and emptiness
The unseen consequence of the conditions of release
We found a man the other day, hanging from the ceiling
His sentence was almost at an end
And there on his bed was a note so sad and simple
Said you can never go home again
Never go home, never go home
You can never go home again
Never go home, never go home
You can never go home again
Written by:
DANIEL FORD WHITENER, LAWRENCE CHRISTOPHER DURANT, OSCAR OWENS, RANDAL GREEN
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