Some Go Home - Jerry Jeff Walker
Soldier rides on the train to Tennessee
And half asleep he dreams what isn't a dream
Each click of the wheels on steel a face goes by
With each face he loves, he turns and sighs
And he's headed home, yes, yes
He's headed home, trying to find his life again
And he wonders what's become of them
Three rows back, a young woman looks out the train
Her eyes reveal that her life is desperately plain
She's a woman who's seen this world and not touched one man
She knows she could if she would, but she can't
And she's headed home, yeah
Headed home, back where life begins and ends
And you feel that you belong to them
That train keeps moving on down the line
Leaving people at every depot behind
You wanna begin somewhere, but you'll always take a chance out there
So you go on down the line
I sit half drunk in the dining car and I observe life
Got him pegged, and I'm pretty sure I got her right
When you've been as far as I have you just know these things
That's the reason that I sat and drank the drinks
Cause I got no home, no, no
I need no one, nothing to bring pain again
It's great just living on the wind
But the woman is met by her husband there at the station
And two stops later the soldier's girl is still waiting
And I simply accept the fact they're just lucky that all
In fact I don't believe they pulled it off
And I can't go on, no, no
I can't go on, making everything I see
Fit the way life was for me
That train keeps moving on down the line
Leaving people at every depot behind
And I want to begin somewhere
But for me it's never free out there
So I'll go down the line, down the line
Down the line, go on down the line
Go on down the line, down the line, down the line