Caroline

Album: Give Up The Ghost (2009)
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  • I woke up long after dawn
    Twenty years had come and gone
    I know when it changed for me
    A day in June you came to me
    I've seen through someone else's eyes
    With nothin' on the other side
    Every motel, every town
    Pieces scattered all around

    Promises that I can't be
    Someone's heart that I can't keep
    Days so long I couldn't speak
    Roads so rocky I can't sleep
    But I've seen things so beautiful
    All around this broken world
    That pale in comparison to you

    Caroline, I'm on my way back home to you
    Imagine what I'm a-goin' through
    Without you by my side
    It's been a long, long time
    Oh, won't you say a prayer for me
    I hope you will remember me
    You're always on my mind

    I have seen the canyon lands
    Crooked lines like in your hands
    To swear the earth was split in two
    I wouldn't lie I promise you
    That I have seen it, you will too
    You could not believe if not for
    Photographs I took for you, Caroline
    They've built towers to the sky
    It hurts sometimes to watch them try
    They run themselves into the ground
    But I know you will love them
    And their city lights and city sounds
    There's beauty in the struggle
    Anytime I feel it get me down
    I see you smiling

    Caroline, I'm on my way back home to you
    Can't imagine what I'm a-goin' through
    Without you by my side
    It's been a long long time
    Oh, won't you say a prayer for me
    I hope you will remember me
    You're always on my mind
    My Caroline

    Yeah, my Caroline

    Now, I have seen things in the sky
    Stars and lights and birds and I
    I've been rocky mountain high
    Told them all about you
    Because you are still the only thing
    That constantly amazes me
    I love the road and I've been blessed
    But I love you best

    Caroline, I'm on my way back home to you
    Can't imagine what I'm a-goin' through
    Without you by my side
    It's been a long, long time
    Oh, won't you say a prayer for me
    I hope you will remember me
    You're always on my mind
    You were always on my mind
    My Caroline

    Oh, my, my, my Caroline Writer/s: Brandi M. Carlile, Phillip John Hanseroth, Timothy Jay Hanseroth
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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