Late Train Home (Live)

I see a pretty fine girl
Blowing smoke from her first cigarette of the day
She shivers two minutes to seven
As the train blows her hair all to one side of her face
She's off on another adventure
Wondering how in the hell
She wound up in this place
She's onboard but she's already fading
I feel misery behind me
She's a powerful engine and she won't let go

Oh sweet darlin won't you take me home
Oh sweet darlin won't you walk me down the road

She takes the late train home
Where the love of her life rolls up just in time
He spent these last years at war
But today he just swore on the unemployment line
She soothes him with all of the stories
That lit up her day like the Macy's parade
He hears her but he's already fading
I see misery crying
She is cold and she's older and she's just like me

Oh sweet darlin won't you take me home
Oh sweet darlin won't you walk me down the road
Oh sweet darlin won't you take me home
Oh sweet darlin won't you walk me down the road

You know she's waitin for her
You know she's waitin for her
Magic carpet ride

I see a pretty girl fighting
To keep it together for another whole day
She leans her head on the window
With the sun on her face
Cause she likes it that way
And then later she wakes from a dream
It's the love of her life on the telephone line
He's speaks but she's already fading
I see her misery painted
Like the pastel stare of a heartbroken child

Oh sweet darlin won't you take me home
Oh sweet darlin won't you walk me down the road
Oh sweet darlin won't you take me home
Oh sweet darlin won't you walk me down the road
Won't you walk me down

Welcome back to your home sweet home
Now he's fightin he's fightin he's fightin
He's fightin he's fightin alone
Welcome back
To your home sweet home sweet home sweet home
Welcome back to the long cold road
The high life back home
Can't even get the doc to take your calls
Or fifty bucks to drop at the mall
Everybody tells you welcome home
Welcome back to the land of on your own, yeah

Got a prescription for the fire in my head
Sometimes I don't wake up til its cold and dark outside