Evergreen

I was gone just like a train

No reason I had to complain

It was my time, and when it came

No one could hold me

Headed south, way down the line

Sun-kissed, but somehow lost the shine

Just borrowed what I thought was mine

Nobody told me

High up in the summer

Where the night comes like a sigh

Of longing for the day that passed you by

Evergreen, I’m coming back to you

On that southern track to do

The things I never could before

Seventeen years, what’s a little more?

Just turn around and I’ll be knocking at your door

Out east the highways multiplied

Fast as the troubles in my mind,

I Gave up looking for the high road

For a while

Way up north to Casco Bay

And a dozen more along the way

’Til every minute of the day

Was another mile

In the half light of the winter

With a bottle in my hand

How far until you finally understand

Evergreen, I’m coming back to you

On that southern track to do

The things I never could before

Seventeen years, what’s a little more?

Just turn around and I’ll be knocking at your door

 

The green is on the foothills

And the storms are blowin’ in

Lights are burnin’ bright

Up in the canyon once again

If you get to where you’re goin’

Does it matter where you’ve been

Evergreen, I’m coming back to you

On that southern track to do

The things I never could before

Seventeen years, what’s a little more?

Just turn around and I’ll be knocking at your door