The Long Walk Home

I haven't posted in awhile, I know. I've been SO BUSY with school and work, it's not even funny. I have never been so busy in my life, but that's to be expected with college graduation on the horizon (summer 2011, finally.)

Anyway, I gave this place a makeover, and I want to try to focus on books, music, photography, and travel here. I really am a girl of arts and culture more than anything, so what better place to discuss that than here? I constantly come across quotes, songs/lyrics, poems, or photos that I just love and want to share. So from now on, I will do so here.

As for tonight - this song is on my mind. It's one of my favorites (not only of Springsteen's, but in general too) and I love the lyrics.

Enjoy.


Long Walk Home

Last night I stood at your doorstep
Trying to figure out what went wrong
You just slipped somethin' into my palm, then you were gone
I could smell the same deep green of summer
Above me the same night sky was glowin'
In the distance I could see the town where I was born

It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
A long walk home

In town I passed Sal's grocery
The barbershop on South Street
I looked in their faces
They were all rank strangers to me
The veteran's hall high upon the hill
Stood silent and alone
The diner was shuttered and boarded
With a sign that just said "gone"

It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home

Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason to begin again

My father said "Son, we're lucky in this town,
It's a beautiful place to be born.
It just wraps its arms around you,
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone
You know that flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't."

It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home