The Road's My Home

Fire's down to embers
Last song's been sung
Boots on the cold floor
Before the morning comes
I won't wake a soul
Won't say goodbye
Just the latch clicking soft
And the open sky

A road in my blood
Keeps pulling me on
By the time you wake
I'll be gone

I was never meant to stay
The road, the road's my home
Out past the last lantern
Where the tall pines grow
Don't you weep for the wanderer
I'm not lost and I'm not alone
I was never meant to stay
The forest calls me home

Frost on the bracken
Mist in the pines
A little brown wren
Flies close by my side
The town falls behind me
Green swallows the track
I'll carry every fire I lit
But I'm not looking back

Some are born to a hearth and a door
Some to a name in stone
But I was born to the grey of the morning
And a path of my own
Don't you grieve, don't you follow
Let the good fire glow
I'll be warm on the roads that I roam
The wild's the only home I know

I was never meant to stay
The road, the road's my home
Out past the last lantern
Where the tall pines grow
Don't you weep for the wanderer
I'm not lost and I'm not alone
I was never meant to stay
The forest calls me home

Oh-oh, the road's my home
Oh-oh, the forest calls me home