We Are Home

700 footsteps between your front porch and mine
We have 18 years to count them up in time
But what is time to kids with all this sky and dirt and road
To show them up and out together as we go?

We throw rocks and pick wildflowers for her windowsill
Our hearts beat with the blood from down the line
We know nothing but the muddy footprints on the trail could be
The best damn thing a kid could leave behind

So I'll walk slow, so when you fall behind you'll catch me
I have known you since before my memory
Down the road, a thousand times you met me
With every step they watched us grow
We didn't notice, but we know
You are mine and I am yours and we are home

You might grow wings and fly right past that big Hollywood sign
I might stay here with the horses in the barn
We might forget the way those big oak trees they hold our dreams
But we won't forget they made us who we are

So I'll walk slow, so when you fall behind you'll catch me
I have known you since before my memory
Down the road, a thousand times you've met me
With every step they watched us grow
We didn't notice, but we know
You are mine and I am yours and we are home

And if you ask me I will let you wear my best shirt
And if I ask you'll say you'll meet me there by noon
You write the notes I'll write the rhyme
And we will sing it right in time
With the stomp of that dirt beneath our boots

So I'll walk slow, so when you fall behind you'll catch me
I have known you since before my memory
Down the road, a thousand times you've met me
With every step they watched us grow
We didn't notice, but we know
You are mine and I am yours and we are home
You are mine and I am yours and we are home