East City Lights

Take my hands love
Let's go on a journey
This ain't our home
This ain't our country

Take my hand love
Let's go on a journey
We'll lose our lives
Wandering in the beauty

And we'll follow the light
Down the longest roads in the darkest nights
We'll make it home
Though our hands are tired and feet are worn
We'll follow the light
We'll follow the light back home

Take my hand, love
Let's go on a journey
Don't pack your bags
Leave your belongings
Take my hand, love
Let's go on a journey
And we'll move mountains
And dance in the valleys

And when we make it home
We'll rest our weary bones by the fire
And hear 'well done'
My faithful son my precious daughter
Well done

The night is racin'
I'm tired of runnin' after
Without knowing what I'm chasing

Don't wanna be a lonely man
Gotta get out of this dangerous land
If my hands stop shakin'
I'll try a little more givin' now
And a lot less takin'
Oh I'm just a broken man
Tryin' to live with an open hand
Find a better way
Than being beatin' down and stranded
On the darkest sides of love
A long way from the sun

My heart was fractured like the sidewalks where I run
But I have seen the sun

Tomorrow I'm makin'
A list of all the ways to trick my heart to stop breakin'
'Cause it's been changin' hands
Ever since I was a younger man
And I need a better way

And these east city lights are shinin'
And these east city lights are blindin'
and they're remindin' me that they're findin' me
A quiet steady place to call my home

Tonight I'm prayin'
with a little bit more listenin'
And a lot less sayin'
I used to be a wanderin' man
It made me a lonely man
So I'm here to stay

Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm on my way

Sometimes it feels like these old ways
Are hangin' on like wax drippin' off a candle
Burnin' slow
And these days been draggin' on
They're draggin' on
Oh Lord, sometimes these days I don't know

Yesterday's over
And tomorrow ain't here
Although I'm seven years sober
I can't stop looking
Can't stop looking out my rearview mirror

I could slide back to those wild days
Make my way back to those simple times
But I'll keep standing by the highways
On these lonely roads
Beggin' like a poor man
Beggin' like a poor man

There's villans fillin' up my headspace
And worries and doubts runnin' circles around my soul
It's funny livin' in this time and place
Something 'bout livin' in these days is all I know
All I know

Lord, help me stop looking in my rearview mirror

Take me as I am
Will you take me as I am?
Take me as I am
'Cause I'm listening as a child
Beggin' as a poor man