Coming Up Close

[Verse 1]

One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car

Went driving in the summer, promises in every star

Out in the distance I could hear some people laughing

I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness

[Verse 2]

There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted

We stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface

We thought just for an instant we could see the future

We thought for once we knew what really was important

[Chorus]

Coming up close

Everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

And oh, by the way

Don't you know that I could make

A dream that's barely half-awake come true

I wanted to say–

But anything I could have said

I felt somehow that you already knew

[Verse 3]

We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape

We drove around the fields until it started getting late

And I went back to my hotel room on the highway

And he just got back in his car and drove away

[Chorus]

Coming up close

Everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

Oh, by the way

Don't you know that I could make

A dream that's barely half-awake come true

I wanted to say–

But anything I could have said

I felt somehow that you already knew

[Outro]

Coming up close

Everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

Coming up close

Everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

Come on home