Verse 1

That old screen door keeps tapping time

Dust on the mailbox, sun on the line

You said you’d be back when the road turned gold

I kept your blue cup though the coffee went cold

Verse 2

I heard your tires on the gravel bend

You came in smiling like an old lost friend

No grand excuse, just a coat in your hand

And a little more gray than the boy I knew then

Chorus

Come on in, don’t explain

There’s a chair by the window, shelter from the rain

We’ve both been gone, we’ve both been wrong

Let’s find the part of us that still sings along

Verse 3: Male

I took the long way past the county line