Album: Home Before Dark (2008)

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• Home before dark
  Before the night comes falling
  The sun going down
  And I can hear you calling
  I followed my star
  Just to be where you are
  But I couldn't get far
  In the dark
  
  Home before dark
  Before the day deserts me
  I looked for my truth
  Knowing the truth might hurt me
  Been traveling light
  Just the head of the night
  And I'll be getting home right
  Before dark
  
  I've been searching
  Can't explain
  Looked for reasons
  But what I found in me
  Know for certain
  Things are changing
  I've been changing
  Now I need you to be
  Home where I can see
  
  Home before dark
  Before the light escapes me
  To be at your side
  That's where the journey takes me
  And I've been afraid
  If I lost my way
  Then I wouldn't be save
  Before dark
  
  I've got stories
  I wanna tell you
  You need to hear them
  Maybe then you'll see
  That I've found them
  Never knowing
  They were going
  On inside of me
  It's where I had to be
  
  Home before dark
  Know you'll be waiting for me
  To be at your door
  And talking to a fool
  In the morning
  Been so long
  The places I know
  But I knew I'd get home
  Before dark
  
  Because of you
  I get home
  Before dark Writer/s: NEIL DIAMOND
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Sandy Mayhugh from Peoria, IlThank you. Your depth of emotions, truth, inspiring to me. Name of Jesus is a strong tower and those that run into are safe. I am on earth as many years as you. God bless you with Peace.
• John from London, United KingdomFor years Neil has lived in the long shadow of his late sixties and seventies songs, and for many of his fans it may have seemed his time for writing classics had passed. When I listened to 12 Songs I was largely disapointed, not because it was a bad album, but because it had nothing to compare with the likes of Brooklin Roads, Cracklin Rosie, I Am I Said, etc, so I approached the album Home Before Dark with scepticism. At first I believed it had reached #1 on the basis of a very ear-catching promotional track, Pretty Amazing Grace, but then I heard the album. It is full of excellent songs about God, goldiggers, past loves, and returning to his first love, his audience and music. After about five plays I discovered the reason why it had been his first UK #1; it just happens to be his best album. But is there anything on the album to trouble those early classics? Well yes, there is actually, in fact the album contains something I would have thought impossible; his best ever song, and it is the title track. It is so beautiful, so full of the weight of a lifetime's experience, it could bring tears to a glass eye. If you used to be a fan, even if you just liked a few of the old songs, buy the album and listen to it a few times; you won't be sorry.

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