I took the long road back to nowhere Same sky but it don't feel the same Used to know every street by heart Now I don't recognize the names [female vocals enter] The corner store's a parking lot The old oak tree is gone somehow [male vocals] I swear I hear our laughter still But there's no one here now I walk the fields we used to run in Concrete where the wild grass grew It was a wind that smelled like summer Now it don't carry you The porch light's gone, the paint's all new But something's missing in the air It's not the place I came back to It's just a town still standing there We came back chasing ghosts in time But time don't wait, it redraws the lines Every road we used to know Leads somewhere we don't belong The dust don't dance like it did before No footprints left on that old floor We found a place for lost years All that's left is what disappeared There was a diner on the highway Where we carved our names in wood Now it's neon lights and strangers Nothing feels the way it should I tried to hear the night like back then Crickets singing soft and low But silence here is different now It's something I don't know Maybe it ain't the town that changed Maybe we just couldn't stay What we miss ain't here no more It faded on its own way We came back chasing ghosts in time But time don't wait, it redraws the lines Every road we used to know Leads somewhere we don't belong The dust don't dance like it did before No footprints left on that old floor We found a place for lost years All that's left is what disappeared Same sky, different air We were young, it ain't there
