Halfway to October | The Long Way Home | Track 02-14 | 1970

[Verse 1] The leaves were turning early, The year already worn and thin. I traced the day you left me By the places we’d once been. The corner shop was closing, The sky a tired grey-blue bend. Funny how the smallest things Still take me back again. [Pre-Chorus] And maybe time was meant to fall that way, But some roads linger longer in the day… [Chorus] I was halfway to October When your shadow found my door. Didn’t knock, didn’t enter — Just a feeling on the floor. And I kept walking forward, But I swear I turned around… Halfway to October, And the world slowed down. [Verse 2] Your voice came through in letters, In the lines you never wrote. A melody unfinished In a half-forgotten note. I carried it for years Like a postcard left behind — A picture of a something I could never quite define. [Pre-Chorus] Yeah, maybe time was meant to fall that way, But there are things the season couldn’t say… [Chorus] I was halfway to October When your shadow found my door. Didn’t knock, didn’t enter — Just a feeling on the floor. And I kept walking forward, But I swear I turned around… Halfway to October, And the world slowed down. [Bridge] Maybe we were waiting For the same unwritten line — Two pages in a story Reappearing over time. [Final Chorus] I was halfway to October, But you still lived in the air. Every turn, I felt you — Every silence, you were there. And though I kept on walking, I was never on my own… Halfway to October, Almost home.