Wonder Why We Ever Go Home - Live 1980

Years grow shorter, not longer
More you've been on your own
Feelings for moving grow stronger
So you wonder why you ever go home
Wonder why you ever go home

People are moving so quickly
Keepers in need of repair
Same occupations and same obligations
They've really got nothing to share
Like driving around with no spare

River gets deeper, not shallow
Further you move down the stream
Wondering if I can keep her
As I race to catch up with my dream
How they shine and glitter and gleam

Years grow shorter, not longer
The more you've been on your own
Feelings for moving grow stronger
So you wonder why you ever go home
Wonder why you ever go home
You wonder why you ever go home

Now, what would they do if I just sailed away?
Who the hell really compelled me to leave today?
Running low on stories, that what made it a ball
What would they do if it made no landfall?

I lived half my life in an eight-by-five room
Cruising to the sound of a big diesel boom
It's not close quarters that would make me snap
It's just dealing with the daily unadulterated crap

Sail away for a month at a time
Sail away, I've got to recharge my mind
Then you'll find me back at it again

Hey, I like the smell of fresh snapper fried light
What you say, Pouilly-Fuissé can round out the night?
Mid-morning watch is the best time to look
What would they do if I wrote my big book?
You're mine

Well, I've seen incredible things in 30, 30 years
Some days are laughter and others are tears
If I had it all to do over again
I'd just get myself drunk, and I'd jump right back in

Sail away, that's the way I survive
Sail away, that's just no shuck and jive
It just makes my whole life come alive

The wind whistles through the cold riggin' at night
Crazy crowds boogie to the sound and the light
Bum down in Capo's, he's just having a ball
What would he do on another landfall?

What would they do if I made no landfall?
What if I hadn't slid into second at all?
What would I do if I met Lauren Bacall?
Just tryin' to make a little sense of it all
Just tryin' to make a little sense of it all

Thank you, alright

What would they do?
Alright
This, uh, this now brings us to the cultural part of the show, and, uh
You know that there are certain people here
That come to get a lot of culture out of us, you know? And, uh
For all you, uhm, all you people that are here for that reason
The, uh, mid, Greater Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area Cultural Society
We know you're represented here tonight

This is a song that sort of covers the sentiment, I think
For most people deep down inside on the Fourth of July

Looks alright?
Well, for all you people on the radio that are not here with us tonight
I have to describe, my pants are blue-jean blue
My shirt is shocking yellow and the hat that someone just threw me is vivid white
If you're not seeing that, then you're not doin' okay



Credits
Writer(s): Jimmy Buffett
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