Take Me Back Home Again

from "The Emergency Lane" by Dudley Saunders

offer a beer to me
and make it clear to me
we're to be
the only ones in this room
all night
spoon your back into me
and I'll begin to believe
you're gonna stay with me tonight
for night and night and night and nights

take me back home again
take me back home
'cause you're the only rider
on the highway in my bones
take me back home again
take me alone
'cause I can't see without your light
shining on my lonely lonely lonely
road tonight
feels like the sun is in my eyes

walk me do wn empty streets
talking talk that repeats
the sweet
feelings that you feel
I'll eat 'em down down
like the sweetest meal
fingers caught up in mine
and I will lie so fine
you find
all the lies have turned out real
real as road against your wheels

take me back home again
take me back home
'cause you're the only rider
on the highway in my bones
take me back home again
take me alone
'cause I can't see without your light
shining on my lonely lonely lonely
road tonight
feels like the sun is in my eyes

nothing's on your radio
but larry king and oldies shows
I'm on another frequency
you got to dial your dial, dear
down to me
no you don't know why you left
but now that rock of ages clefts
for you and me
you're gonna feel bereft
until you tune on into me

and on a starry night
I think we are rewriting
all the tales that turned out sad
'cause that's one tale
I done already had
here in the candle glow
good'll come and'll go
but you know
I'll never treat you bad
'cept on days
you say you want it bad

take me back home again
take me back home
'cause you're the only rider
on the highway in my bones
take me back home again
take me alone
'cause I can't see without your light
shining on my lonely lonely lonely
road tonight
feels like the sun is in my eyes