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Time and time again I tried to get back to my home town |
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On my mind again I'm on my way back take a look around |
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The places I remember where my picture comes undone |
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Such a long way back and this boy's lost track of the place where he was young |
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And I'm back on the street where I used to live |
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And I passed an old friend who was holding his kid |
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And I swear I can almost hear mamma call my name |
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And I'm back on the river where I was Huck Finn |
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Just Charlie McLaughlin he always played Jim |
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Now I know why they say you just can't go home again |
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Yes I know why they say you just can't go home again |
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My friends and I could talk the night away about where we were going |
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Laying out our lives we had no way of ever knowing |
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The plans we made keep changing and people they just do the same |
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It's a long way back and we all lose track of the faces and the names |
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And I stop for an ice cream at the corner d**g store |
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A double deck cone ain't a dime anymore |
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Have things really changed so much or is it just me |
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And I asked about Tom he ran the picture show |
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And somebody said he died years ago |
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Now I know why they say you just can't go home again |
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Yes I know why they say you just can't go home again |
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Such a long way back and this boy's lost track |
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Of the places and their names |
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And I spoke to the bum as he sat on the ground |
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That crazy old man he's still toasting the town |
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For the first time in my life I understood |
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How the wine that had taken his worries and cares |
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Had also taken the love he once shared |
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Then he cried as he said I just can't go home again |
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Now I know why they say you just can't go home again |
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Yes I know why they say you just can't go home again |
