Pilgrim (You Can’t Go Home) Lyrics by Dave Rawlings Machine
Nashville Obsolete
2015
I won’t get drunk no more, no more The old refrain it shines with use While you sop your bread in barley wine And mop your floor in tobacco juice So they kicked you out of paradise Grinned and locked the garden gate What those devils called your greatest sin Gabriel and I called your great escape Where you gonna run? Tell me where will you roam When you can’t go home (you can’t go home) You can’t go home (you can’t go home) Oh pilgrim, you can’t go home The gilded cage cannot contain the gypsies of the earth The poet and the tumbleweed discuss what rootlessness is worth And pity those who never felt inspiration’s cold wet nose And wakes you up out in the ditch Where you’re tumbling round Where the four winds blow Where you gonna run? Tell me where will you roam When you can’t go home (you can’t go home) You can’t go home (you can’t go home) Oh pilgrim, you can’t go home The Polaroids of Indio show desert flowers entwined Their nakedness has already been blasted by the sands of time But still you thought your sad Jane Would wait for you 'til who-knows-when But that little girl’s got a new tattoo To let you know you can’t go home again Where you gonna run? Tell me where will you roam When you can’t go home (you can’t go home) You can’t go home (you can’t go home) Oh pilgrim, you can’t go home So spin the wheels of St. Columba’s And ride his golden calf Climb up the silver strings of the mandolin 'Til you can hear the angels laugh And if rock and roll is more your thing Go ahead and wear the badge 'Cause chaos needs another king A pillar of smoke who don’t look back Where you gonna run? Tell me where will you roam When you can’t go home (you can’t go home) You can’t go home (you can’t go home) Oh pilgrim, you can’t go home I am dirty and torn, my tail's hung out A ship with tattered sails Been down and out Around the horn to chase the great white whale Across the night and across the day I save my song for eternity Now here I find you gazing out Of the window at St. James infirmary Where you gonna run? Tell me where will you roam When you can’t go home (you can’t go home) You can’t go home (you can’t go home) Oh pilgrim, you can’t go home So keep rolling, rolling down that road that you’re on Keep rolling, rolling, rolling on Rolling on, rolling on, rolling on… Keep rolling, rolling down that road that you’re on Keep rolling, rolling, rolling on
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