Magnolia Road
Album: Umbrella Man
By: Scott Albert Johnson
By: Scott Albert Johnson
Duration
4:26
Genres
Description
This song is a very dear one to me. I wrote it in early 2002, about a year before I moved home to Mississippi from Washington DC. At the time, I had just made a decision to re-focus my life and career around music. I grew up in Mississippi, a place where music seems to live in the air all around you. I had left for college and lived in various faraway locales for a long time.
Lyrics
The sweet, sweet surrender of a dark and cold December The smell of burning firewood in the air My friends and my relations make a bright constellation Of the memories I once created there When I'd go walking down the Magnolia Road To find the places that I used to go And when the time comes 'round to take me one thousand miles away There I go, but here my heart will stay There's not much explanation for this old infatuation I know there isn’t much that I can do 'Cause time marches onward, with dreams left undiscovered And still this road leads me back to you And I am walking down the Magnolia Road To learn the things that I used to know And though I know I’m chasing shadows through the alleys of my past The road will take me to the things that last Tell me that old story of the power and the glory Tell me how to chase my fears away Give me one good reason to make it through one more season Until the time when I come back to stay And we’ll go walking down the Magnolia Road Hold me tight until I have to go Until the time comes 'round to take me one thousand miles away There I go, but here my heart will stay
