Can't Go Home Again

Time and time again

I tried to get back

To my home town

On my mind again

I'm on my way back

Take a look around

The places I remember

Where my pictures come undone

Such a long way back

And this boy's lost track

Of the place where he was young

And I'm back on the street where I used to live

And I passed an old friend who was holding his kid

And I swear I can almost hear momma call my name

And I'm back on the river where I was Huck Finn

Just Charlie McLaughlin

He always played Jim

Now I know why they say

You just can't go home again

Yes, I know why they say

You just can't go home again

My friends and I could talk the night away

About where we were going

Laying out our lives

We had no way of ever knowing

The plans we made keep changing

And people they just do the same

It's a long way back

And we all lose track

Of the faces and the names

And I stop for an ice cream

At the corner drug store

A double-deck cone ain't a dime anymore

Have things really changed so much

Or is it just me

And I asked about Tom

He ran the picture show

And somebody said he died years ago

Now I know why they say

You just can't go home again

Yes, I know why they say

You just can't go home again

Such a long way back

And this boy's lost track

Of the places and their names

And I spoke to the bum

As he sat on the ground

That crazy old man

He's still toasting the town

For the first time in my life I understood

How the wine that had taken his worries and cares

Had also taken the love he once shared

Then he cried as he said

I just can't go home again

Now I know why they say

You just can't go home again

Yes, I know why they say

You just can't go home again