Home Kaysa Rowan [Verse 1] There is something about returning home To the place where I grew up so long ago Memories anchored in time and space To people and a familiar place Once families lived and died In the same house or somewhere nearby Now scattered far, so little remains No generations to pull us back again [Chorus] Yet as I return To familiar alleys and roads Searching for signs Of places I used to know Nostalgia pulls at my heartstrings For the people I once knew The friends I grew up with And the family I loved too [Verse 2] Horsey Park where we once played Blue, yellow, and red pony swings The witch’s hat with hanging chains We’d run until our feet lifted away All gone now, replaced with something new Different from the place we knew But I remember how it used to be Those childhood days still live in me [Verse 3] Boys Town, down beside the river A place we named so long ago Where colonies of garter snakes Made their home along the shore Sand dunes where we’d slide on snow Winter days so long ago Floating the river in the summer sun Swimming at the sandbar till the day was done [Chorus] Yet as I return To familiar alleys and roads Searching for signs Of places I used to know Nostalgia pulls at my heartstrings For the people I once knew My cousins and grandparents My uncles and aunts too [Bridge] Jumping off the Del Rio Bridge Into the river flowing below Even the bridge is no longer there Just another place I used to know All scattered or passed away now The people and places I once knew So much has changed with passing years But the memories still come through [Final Chorus] Yet as I return To familiar alleys and roads Searching for signs Of places I used to know There is a comfort Knowing the familiar is still here And a sadness knowing This too will disappear [Outro] In my house from childhood Where I spent so many hours There is a comfort In knowing it’s still here And a sadness knowing This too will disappear There is something About returning home To a place that lives in memory Even when it’s gone
