Coming Up Close

One night in Iowa
 He and I in a borrowed car
 Went driving in the summer
 Promises in 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
 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 have said
 I felt somehow that 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 he just got back in
 His car and drove away
 Coming up close
 Everything sounds like
 Welcome home, come home
 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 have said
 I felt somehow that you already knew
 Coming up close
 Everything sounds like
 Welcome home, come home
 Coming up close
 Everything sounds like
 Welcome home, come home
 Come on home
 Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
 Ooh, ooh
 Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
 Ooh, ooh
 Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
 Ooh, ooh