Back in the Tall Grass

Album: Singles (2014)
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  • Home isn't open
    It's like, when you get here
    The tracks by the creek bed
    The minnow's the body
    Crawdads with their heads down low
    Back in the tall grass
    Stinging my cattails oh!
    Looking for brother
    It feels like winter
    But it's the heart of the summer
    We can't go swimming
    As long as we slumber
    -
    Cuz we're a long way from home
    A long way from home
    How did we get here?
    ---
    One step takes me home
    Two steps back on my own
    Three skips to each stone
    Four steps back and I'm gone
    ------
    And I wanted you to know
    I was thinking about you
    And you look like a rose
    Especially, when I'm a long way from home
    ---
    A long way from home
    -
    How did we get here?
    Back to the body
    Words jump like salmon

    One step takes me home
    Two steps back on my own
    Three skips to each stone
    Four steps back and I'm gone

    (Chorus)

    In that backwater
    Running through the woods
    In that red water
    In the mirror
    Thinking of you

    Spend all day just thinking of you
    In the mirror thinking of you
    Spend my days just thinking of you

    (Chorus)

    Long way from home
    (Long way from home)
    Long way from home
    (Long way from home)
    Long way from home... Writer/s: John Gerrit Welmers, Samuel Thompson Herring, William Cashion
    Publisher: Third Side Music Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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