Long Ride Home-Peter White

[00:00.00]Long Ride Home [00:03.31] [00:04.31]Patty Griffin - Elizabethtown [00:07.26] [00:10.30]Long black limousine [00:16.56]Shiniest car I've ever seen [00:22.41]The back seat is nice and clean [00:27.17]She rides as quiet as a dream [00:32.30]Someone dug a hole six long [00:35.32]feet in the ground [00:37.05]I said goodbye to you [00:39.16]and I threw my roses down [00:42.09]Ain't nothing left at all [00:44.13]in the end of being proud [00:46.65]With me riding in a race car [00:49.15]and you flying through the clouds [00:51.15] [00:52.61]I've had some time to think about you [00:57.51]And watch the stone set like a stone [01:02.58]I've had some time to think about you [01:06.20]On the long ride home [01:09.72] [01:19.06]One day I took your tiny hand [01:23.62]Put your finger in the wedding band [01:29.44]Your daddy gave a piece of land [01:33.96]We laid ourselves the best of plans [01:39.30]Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed [01:44.13]Forty years of things you wish you'd never said [01:48.72]How hard would it have been to say [01:51.25]some kinder words instead [01:53.12]I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red [01:58.56] [01:59.26]I've had some time to think about you [02:03.99]And watch the stone set like a stone [02:08.37]I've had some time to think about you [02:12.85]On the long ride home [02:17.27] [02:21.45]Headlights staring at the driveway [02:25.82]The house is dark as it can be [02:31.49]I go inside and all is silent [02:35.25]It seems as empty as the inside of me [02:40.80] [02:41.01]I've had some time to think about you [02:46.15]And watch the stone set like a stone [02:51.15]I've had some time to think about you [02:54.93]On the long, on the long [02:59.93]On the long, on the long [03:05.38]ride home [03:08.75] [03:11.59]-THE END-