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You Can't Go Home Again

from Citizens Of Nashville by Bob Menzies

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You Can’t Go Home Again
Words and Music by Bob Menzies

I see them marching on the left
I see them marching on the right
Brains are churned like butter
In the sacrificial light
But Josephine stands firmly
In silent amen
She says it does not matter
You can’t go home again

You can’t go home again; you can’t go home again
She says it does not matter / you can’t go home again

She’s got a Lily of the Valley
Clenched between her teeth
She’s got a way to mess your mind up
Make you reach down deep
Into the recesses
Of your primordial brain
As she stands and tells you
You can’t go home again

You can’t go home again; you can’t go home
As she stands and tells you / you can’t go home again

Up and down the freeway
She’s calling out your name
The rain brings down confessions
Of your mistress’ devious game
Of pawns and rooks and bishops
That you cannot contain
She says she knows the reason
You can’t go home again

You can’t go home again; you can’t go home again
She says it does not matter / you can’t go home again


Then she takes you to the water
To the damp and the dark and the fog
Seagulls broken-hearted cries
Sound like wounded dogs
Baying at the moon
From a barely hidden den
Screaming at the angels
You can’t go home again

You can’t go home again; you can’t go home again
She says it does not matter; you can’t go home again

You can’t go home again; you can’t go home again
She says it does not matter; you can’t go home again

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from Citizens Of Nashville, released November 14, 2014

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Bob Menzies Sooke, British Columbia

Bob Menzies is a Canadian folk-rock, alt-country singer-songwriter originally from Montreal and now living in Sooke, a small oceanside town on Vancouver Island’s south coast. He has recorded 5 albums of original music previously and his newest recording is the 2018 EP IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS. ... more

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