Hot sun, lazy days,
Day dreamin’ in the summer haze,
Slowin’ down and losing track of time.

Warm nights an ice cold beer,
Nothing but the crickets singing in my ear,
It feels good to be back home again.

It’s been too long since we came back to where it all began,
Just two kids falling in love,
Makin’ plans to run away and start a life out on our own,
It was all so long ago,
But there’s no place quite like home.

Married now, with a couple a kids,
Oh time flies but that’s the way it is,
Where did those 25 years go?

Sometimes going back,
Is the only way to keep your present day on track,
You need to see how far you've come.

It’s been too long since we came back to where it all began,
Just two kids falling in love,
Makin’ plans to run away and start a life out on our own,
It was all so long ago,
But there’s no place quite like home.

Everywhere I go,
And everything I do,
It’s like I've been looking,
Looking for you.

I didn't really know,
I didn't really care,
But it’s like you had all the answers,
The who, the when, the where.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained,
The adventure where everything changed,
The world had a way,
Of leading me straight to you.

Anywhere I go,
And anything I do,
Just doesn't come close to how I feel,
When I'm with you.

So I guess that in the end,
It was always meant to be,
I was made for you,
And you were made for me.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained,
The adventure where everything changed,
The world had a way,
Of leading me straight to you.

Every time you look my way,
I get a feeling there'll be hell to pay,
If I let you in, you're gonna let me down.
Your reputation leaves a lot to be desired,
You've got the devil in your eyes.

But when you come knocking,
There’s just no stopping my heart from letting you in,
I can't control it, and I hate that you know it,
You've really gotten under my skin,
Oh, I should ignore you, oh, I should see right through you,
But it’s like you've got me under your spell,
I need to turn around before you lead me down,
A one way street to hell.

When I think I'm doing fine,
You got a habit of crossing my mind,
Like a movie on repeat.
Everything about you tells me you're no good,
I need to walk away, oh, I know I should.

But when you come knocking,
There’s just no stopping my heart from letting you in,
I can't control it, and I hate that you know it,
You've really gotten under my skin,
Oh, I should ignore you, oh, I should see right through you,
But it’s like you've got me under your spell,
I need to turn around before you lead me down,
A one way street to hell.

You're gonna bring me down,
You're gonna bring me down.

When it rains it pours,
And I feel like I've been drowning,
Since you've been gone.
I believed in love and happy endings,
But that ended when it all went wrong.

Now in the dead of the night,
The pain gets a little bit stronger,
I spend a little longer thinking about you,
And when the music plays,
It don't hit in the same way,
You took the soul from the song,
And the words right outta my mouth.

When the cold wind blows,
Without an arm to wrap around your shoulder,
It feels a little colder than it did before.
I wish I knew, if there was something I could do,
To stop my mind reminding me you're not here no more.

Now in the dead of the night,
The pain gets a little bit stronger,
I spend a little longer thinking about you,
And when the music plays,
It don't hit in the same way,
You took the soul from the song,
And the words right outta my mouth.

It’s been three days since I saw the light,
It’s like I only come alive at night,
Like a dog on a city street,
Keeping my head low and dragging my feet.

Falling through the cracks,
Since you upped and walked away,
Right back to the lonely girl you met that day,
I’d rather have not met you than feel this way.

It’s been three days since I saw your face,
Can't shake the vision of you packing your suitcase,
You said you don't know what you want,
I said I didn't want a broken heart.

Falling through the cracks,
Since you upped and walked away,
Right back to the lonely girl you met that day,
I’d rather have not met you than feel this way.

I look at the sun,
And I know it’s gonna be one of the days,
That takes me right back to when I was young,
Dreaming through the summer haze.

When nothing was scary, I could do anything.
Loving to cartwheel and dance in the rain,
Pulling up daisies to put in a chain,
Laughing for hours and rolling down hills,
Climbing the trees at the old farmer's mill.

These are the days I remember,
These are the days I miss,
When young and free was all I had to be,
And reality didn't exist.

Stuck on the train riding to work again,
Life on a one-way street,
My only escape is to pause and replay,
Like a memory played on repeat.

When nothing was scary, I could do anything.
Loving to cartwheel and dance in the rain,
Pulling up daisies to put in a chain,
Laughing for hours and rolling down hills,
Climbing the trees at the old farmer's mill.

These are the days I remember,
These are the days I miss,
When young and free was all I had to be,
And reality didn't exist.

Take me back to being young,
Take me back to being young,
Take me back to being young,
Take me back to being young.

Sun goes down,
Dark all around,
Look away, go away now,
Nothing left to say now.

Doors stay closed,
What was new now is old,
Run away, turn away now,
Nothing you can say now.

It falls away,
The cracks appear in the glass,
Facing the ghost of the past,
Making the heartaches last,
It’s up to me,
The keeper of my destiny,
Too far for the eye to see,
Wrapped up safe and sound inside me.

Tears fall down,
Never make a sound,
You can go, you can go now,
Nothing you can do now.

Life goes on,
Forever holding on,
Another day to take away now,
Nothing left to say now.

It falls away,
The cracks appear in the glass,
Facing the ghost of the past,
Making the heartaches last,
It’s up to me,
The keeper of my destiny,
Too far for the eye to see,
Wrapped up safe and sound.

It falls away,
The cracks appear in the glass,
Facing the ghost of the past,
Making the heartaches last,
It’s up to me,
The keeper of my destiny,
Too far for the eye to see,
Wrapped up safe and sound inside me.

I was a rock but I've come so far,
From tumbling between the infinite stars,
But oh oh, but no more.

Yeah 'cause time tore the flesh away from the bone,
I was a rock but now I'm a stone,
But I know there’s more.

Yeah I'm made from the mud,
I came from the clay,
The centuries silently sliding away.

Yeah I was a rock but I've come so far,
From tumbling between the infinite stars.

La, la, oh,
Yeah I'm made from the mud,
I came from the clay,
The centuries silently sliding away.

Yeah I was a rock but the dust I've become,
Is just part of the great imperceptible hum,
Yeah I, I'm no more.

Golden was the bird I knew,
Sang a song so free then flew,
And they won't come back,
Can't come back.

Golden was the bird long gone,
Sang a little while, flew on,
And they won't come back,
Can't come back.

Yeah, I woke one morning, long time gone,
A magpie’d come to steal away my song,
Was up against the window yeah tapping on the pane,
But it couldn't get in, no, kept calling my name.

Golden was the bird,
And they won't come back.

You are the sunshine melting the snow,
You water the seed,
You give what it needs,
The leaves’ll grow,
So give me the sunshine.

High on a hillside you are the breeze,
I used to be small but then I grew tall,
I turned into a tree,
So give me a hillside.

Oh your love has fed the root,
made my blossoms turn to fruit,
Now the days are cold,
The wind begins to blow.

Yeah your love has fed the root,
from my branches fell the fruit,
Now the days are cold,
The wind begins to blow,
Yeah the sun's getting low.

You are the sun,
You are breeze,
I used to be small,
But now I'm a tree.

I'm a working man,
And I've got working hands,
And I've worked the land for ages, hmm.

But the toll this life has taken,
Is a back that’s always aching,
And if my scars could tell their tales,
It'd take a long, long time,
You'd hear about broken bones and splinters.

Yeah, tankard ales and long dark winters,
A laureate who’s not worried at the rhyme.

Oh but when the rain comes down,
I stop the rain from falling on the ground.

I'm a working man,
And I've got working hands,
I've worked the land for ages, hmm,
For ages, hmm.

Back up baby,
I don't wanna burn you,
I'm red hot and I can't cool down,
Like a wildfire, flames getting higher,
Oh honey this hot shot’ll not stop fooling around.

Your love is like a rough cut diamond,
It’s all I want but not what I need,
You're my ice cold, white gold lover,
I don't want comfort when I got speed.

Here I come and when I'm done,
Yeah there I go.

Life’s good,
And it’s gonna get better,
With a little less work and a lot more play,
All I want is what you got,
Yeah, a little bit of lovin goes a long way.

So back it up baby,
I don't wanna burn you,
But it feels so good yeah it feels alright,
Gotta keep on keepin on till we're long gone,
This hot shot‘ll rock and roll all night.

Here I come and when I'm done,
Yeah there I go,
Hmm, come find me out on the open road.

So back it up baby,
I don't wanna burn you,
I'm red hot and I can't cool down,
Like a wildfire, flames getting higher,
Oh honey this hot shot’s fooling around.

Oh, hear those songbirds singing at the start of the day,
Yeah I woke up early I was on my way,
Red hot sun in a big blue sky,
I was gonna start running,
But it was quicker to fly.

Over the mountain down to the vale,
Out to the coast, get a boat, set sail,
All I want to do is get back and break bread,
I've been missing my lover,
I've been missing my sweet, sweet bed.

I'm trying to get back home,
Before the sun goes down.

Oh I can't slow down, my feet won't rest,
I'm weak I'm weary but I couldn't care less,
Got a song in my soul, got a skip in my step,
My heartbeat’s racing the closer I get.

I've been gone so long but now I gotta get back,
Just one more trail yeah, one more track,
For ten long years been skipping like a stone,
But now this old man’ll be rolling,
Rolling home.

I'm trying to get back home,
Before the sun goes down.

I've got one hand on the wheel,
The whole world is passing' by,
I've got one hand on the wheel,
Got a big blue sky,
I've got one hand on the wheel,
The sun is getting low,
I've got one hand on the wheel,
I'm gonna roll real slow.

Cos it’s a long, long road, we've got time,
Yeah it’s a long, long road, so we’ve got time.