Goin' Back Home

from Where the Wasteland Ends by Poor Player

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lyrics

In the days of my life I wandered far and wide 
In my nights full of dreams I dreamed of loves passed by
In my blue-eyed solitude I come by a few tunes
Full of lonesome longing ya hum to the rise of the moon
The only road I know is goin back home

Trampin down railroad tracks a-glimmer with the curve of the earth
The sun's shiny shimmer my only coin of worth 
Across rivers and valleys the wander winding way
Singing to myself in the dewy dawn of day
The only road I know is goin back home

The sorrows of the city ya escape with a hobo heart
Outwitting authority is a free man's favorite art
Stretched out on bedroll ‘neath the wide starry sky
Wondering to myself once again— why oh why?
The only road I know is goin back home

These things you fear that you're runnin from
When you laugh at the night and you beat your drum
You say so long, you say so long—
You say tomorrow— 

The crickets and creatures my only company
A lone hawk circling keeps his eyes on me
In a silver mountain lake I swim till high noon
The creaking of the pines crying a mournful tune
The only road I know is goin back home

On a treacherous trail on a spiny rocky ridge
My boot heels slipping across a wet waterfall bridge
Atop a crazy crag I gaze cross all creation
The wind in my ear whispers an ancient radio station 
The only road I know is goin back home

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from Where the Wasteland Ends, released April 19, 2019

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Poor Player Detroit, Michigan

Motor City folk rock Americana born of beverages, Poor Player takes to the stage with a hopped up grab bag of American riddles and laments. Saluting the guy flying a sign beside the highway exit, zigzagging through the post-industrial prairie, Poor Player is all about finding the roots beneath the rubble, the green beneath the ruin, the folk in the f*d up, & the beauty in the city gone to seed. ... more

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