copyright Kristen Grainger 2023

You got your severance check
And your divorce decree
Not much of a settlement
You don’t feel quite free
You got lawyers’ fees, you got two bad knees
So you head home again

Chorus
It’s a hard right turn
Down a one-way street
to the corner of redemption and chagrin
There’s no bucking up
when you keep breaking down
and every track just leads you back to
This go-nowhere town

You turn your car around
It makes a funny sound
Not funny like a joke
More like a cloud of smoke
Park in a loading zone, set off on your own
Heading home again

Chorus

Bridge
Home is where you go
and they have to take you in
It’s where you hang your hat or your head
Home is where they know
when you don’t win or place or show
up where the winners go with horns to blow

Bridge reprise

You gotta tell your old man
You got no future plan
You gotta tell your mom
To leave the porch light on
Post a plausible sham on instasnapchatgram
You are home again

Chorus