Lyrics

Well, I’ve been hoping you could break my heart.
I’ve been doing what I can here just to play my part.
Showing up late to pick you up tonight
Pushing all your buttons here to pick a fight

And we’ll drive to my favorite bar
And I’ll give you the keys to my car
I’ll tell you that my plan has never been to drive
My friends are drunk for hours on us to arrive

I’ll be, all smiles and laughs
And you’ll be sitting in the back
You take me by the hand and say you want to go dancing
But I’m working on a buzz I want to keep advancing

I’ve been hoping you could break my heart
I’ve been doing what I can here just to play my part
Bourbon on my breath and a cigarette
Are you getting to the point you want to walk out yet?

Well I’ve been hoping you could break my heart
Yeah, I’ve hoping you could break my heart
Tell me you don’t love me, watch me fall apart
Yeah, i’ve been hoping you could break my heart

Well I think it’s going just as planned
I love you and when you hold my hand
But tonight I’m on a tear and I just don’t know why
Cause I’ll be feeling fonder when you say goodbye

And we’ll do this every year or so
And I knew that you would let me go
But I’ll be back again before the sun is up
Just trying to pour some sugar in your coffee cup

Well I’m still hoping you could break my heart
But you’re too damn sweet for me to want to part
I’ll wake up in the morning and apologize
You’ll tell me that I’m crazy and then roll your eyes

Oh, please don’t let me ever go and break your heart
I know I should be better, and I’m gonna start
First thing in the morning I’ll be a better man
Trust me and believe me, yeah, I know I can

Well I’ve been hoping you could break my heart
Yeah, I’ve hoping you could break my heart
Tell me you don’t love me, watch me fall apart
Yeah, I’ve been hoping you could break my heart

There is no bridge across the ocean from my home to where you are now
And there is no way of knowing where we’ll end up and the ways how

There’s no bridge across the ocean, there’s no road upon the sea
There’s no way to drive to Dublin, there ain’t no you and there ain’t no me

We all grow up down the same road from who we are to who we’ll be
And the turns go different places, but I know you and you know me

There’s no bridge across the ocean, there’s no road upon the sea
There’s no way to drive to Dublin, there ain’t no you and there ain’t no me
There’s no bridge across the ocean, no train up in the sky
There’s no week without a day where it does not cross my mind

Here we are unpacking boxes. I know you, you know me
And we grew up on the same road, I guess this is where it leads

There’s no bridge across the ocean, there’s no road upon the sea
There’s no way to drive to Dublin, there ain’t no you and there ain’t no me
There’s no bridge across the ocean, no train up in the sky
There’s no week without a day where it does not cross my mind

Well I was raised in the land of the valley in the pine
Where the hills kiss the mountains and shoreline

Where the air sinks low on a curvy country road
And the place you grow is all you want to know

And I was raised by a man with the earth upon his hand
And the words to let you know just where you stand

And I recall the sight of a football field and lights
And everyone you know you see on Friday nights

Let me go, let me go
I want to go back home
I want to go back to where I am from
Oh, take me home, take me home
I want to go back home
Home, take me to where I am from

From a boy to a man, I have traveled distant land
I’ve witnessed beauty great and beauty small

And home is the place I see right before I go to sleep
You can never leave and still you’ve seen it all

Take me home, take me home
I want to go back home
I want to go back to where I am from
Let me go, let me go
I want to go back home
Take me home back to the place where I am from

And to the ones I love, I just cannot say enough
I am moved every time you’re spoken of

Hospitable indeed, you have all you’ll ever need
And someday I will follow where you lead

Take me home, take me home
I want to go back home
I want to go back to where I am from
Let me go, let me go
I want to go back home
Take me home back to the place where I am from

Each end of dark meets the edge of a light
I sit here afloat out in the black of the sky
And I want to be with you, I do

But I’m out here alone past where you see in the night
Past where your gravity is holding us tight
And I only want to share this view, with you

But I ain’t never coming home

I lost my head, hit the roof, and I kept going through
Clouds through the stratos, and light years from you
Oh I, want to come back new, to you

To my mom and my dad, I just don’t know what to say
I’m sorry, and thank you but I’m losing my way
So I, will leave it at I love you & miss you

But I ain’t never coming…
I ain’t never coming home

It’s never easy and it started out hard
I finally wrote a missing sympathy card that I
Can’t mail to you

You can’t see it yet, but I have painted the sky
A heart and an arrow holding your name and mine
It might make it back your way soon

Tell the people of heaven that I’m gonna be late
I’ve wondered around, but I can’t find the gate
And I always thought I’d walk right through, with you

But I ain’t never coming…
I ain’t never coming…
I ain’t never coming home

I was wrong
With what I spoke
Slow thoughts and fast words
Make bad jokes

With drinks in hand
We disagreed
Rightfully you slapped me

I was slipping back
About to land
I reached out at you with my right hand

I watched you fall
In disbelief
That I would take you down with me

I put on a show
Acting like I know
Who you were and what you meant to me
Oh, Sheila
It’s late, and I’m sorry

Now I had thought
That to be true
Just meant never leaving you

I’ve grown up
And I’m not sure
I like the man I was before

I put on a show
Acting like I know
Who you were and what you meant to me
If I could go back now
I would shut my mouth
Whenever you stood up, I’d take a seat
Oh, Sheila, it’s late, and I’m sorry

Here we are
Your porch light on
Am I going about this all wrong?

I put on a show
Acting like I know
Who you were and what you meant to me
If I could go back now
I would shut my mouth
Whenever you stood up, I’d take a seat
Oh, Sheila, it’s late, and I’m sorry