already home (stripped acoustic)

[Intro] (single acoustic guitar fingerpicking, 4 bars, room sound and tape hiss, audible breath) [Verse 1] I made the coffee dark the way you take it Your boots still where you left them by the door You came down humming something you don't remember A song from a summer we don't talk about anymore The kitchen window's got a crack from the winter We swore we'd fix it in the spring We never did, and somehow that's the thing That tells me everything [Pre-Chorus] I used to wait for the love I prayed for Now I wake up in the middle of it God's been good and you've been better And I'm finally brave enough to admit [Chorus] (soft harmony a third above enters) I'm already home I'm already home The porch light's still on but it's on for me now This is the place I was looking for all along I quit chasing what I already found I'm already home I'm already home with you [Verse 2] (upright bass enters soft and low) You held my hand in a hospital hallway You held it again at the lake last June And the Tuesday nights that no one writes about Are the ones I'd take back to if I could choose There's a picture of us I keep on the dresser Younger and dumber and sure of nothing at all And I look at that girl and I want to tell her honey, you have no idea [Pre-Chorus] I used to wait for the love I prayed for Now I wake up in the middle of it God's been good and you've been better And I'm finally brave enough to say it [Chorus] (soft harmony a third above) I'm already home I'm already home The porch light's still on but it's on for me now This is the place I was looking for all along I quit chasing what I already found I'm already home I'm already home with you [Bridge] (single voice, single acoustic guitar, room sound only) My mama used to ask me when I'd settle down I never knew the question had an answer 'til now It wasn't a town and it wasn't a man It was a Tuesday morning learning how to stand In a kitchen that already felt like mine And you, just being kind, just being kind [Chorus] (pedal steel sigh enters underneath, soft harmony a third above) I'm already home I'm already home The porch light's still on but it's on for me now This is the place I was looking for all along I quit chasing what I already found I'm already home I'm already home with you [Outro] (naked voice, room sound only, audible breath, hard cut at end) I'm already home I'm already home I'm already home with you