Coming up Close

One night in Iowa, you and I, in a borrowed car

Went driving in the summer, promises on every star

Out in the distance, I could hear some people laughing

I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness

There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted

We stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface

We thought just for an instant we could see the future

We thought for once we knew what really was important

Coming up close, everything sounds like

Welcome home, come home

And oh, by the way, don't you know that I could make

A dream that's barely half awake come true?

I wanted to say, but anything I could've said

It felt somehow, you already knew

We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape

We drove around the fields until it started getting late

And I went back to my hotel room on the highway

And you just got back in your car and drove away

Coming up close, everything sounds like

Welcome home, come home

And oh, by the way, don't you know that I could make

A dream that's barely half awake come true?

I wanted to say, but anything I could've said

I felt somehow, you already knew

Coming up close, everything sounds like

Welcome home, come home, come on home

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

Do-oh, oh