You Can Never Go Back Home

The room looks familiar I've been here before

I remember the slamming of the smoke-stained door

MIrror in one room a chair in the other

She kept flowers in both in memory of her mother

They'd bloom real pretty but they couldn't hide

The stink of the failed attempt at dinner left there in the kitchen sink

I know she sees me but she can't place the face with

The name she tried for 8 years to finally erase

You didn't think I wanted you to see me as I am

I didn't ask you to be a father you could barely be a man

I called this place home in another place in time

Then I left here all alone yea

I'm guilty of that crime wanderlust my a**

I'm a selfish boorish lout

Always try to complicate talking the easy way out

Can't make up for lost time so I'll make another lie

Try to back my way out without the nerve to say goodbye

You can walk away and write your stupid poems

You will never love another and you can never go back home

Go back home go back home go back home

Go back home