Never Going Home Lyrics

Weary driver on a dark highway

Seeking rest at the end of day

Pilot high in the cloudy sky

Searches ground for a landing site

Sailor on the blackened sea

Scans for shore or company

And wanderers in the wilderness

Of forest, canyon, glass or bricks

Some adventures disappoint

Try to find the starting point

It's not for sale at any price

You can't step in the same stream twice

You learn again when you arrive

Return to places, never times

Except within your thoughts alone

You might go back, but you can't go home

Awaken from a misty dream

But can't recapture mise-en-scene

Experience you can't unsee

Forgotten childhood memories

The aged neighbor, never there

Transitioned to assisted care

Sirens sound emergency

The rubicon of uncertainty

The past was never what it seemed

It's just a trick of memory

But memories echo events

Corrupted copies subsequent

Lossy codec paramnesia

Is nostalgia's synesthesia

Lossy codec paramnesia

Is nostalgia's synesthesia

Synesthesia

Synesthesia

Synesthesia

Synesthesia

Distracted mind or altered state

Anything to lift the weight

Always forward, never back

Making plans and keeping track

And faith compels benign neglect

To recall you must forget

Cycling with each dawn and gloam

We are never going home

A promise that you can't redeem

A precious, faded hazy dream

A tattered map long out of date

A passport from a foreign state

A gradient that fades away

Another place, another day

Another face, another life

Forever severed by time's knife

You learn again when you arrive

Return to places, never times

Except within your thoughts alone

You might go back, but you can't go home