All the Way Home
Album: All the Way Home
By: Ben Travis
By: Ben Travis
Duration
6:04
Genres
Description
This is the title track from my new album "All the Way Home." This was the first song written for the album. It was written just after I drove to Nashville with my dad and found out he had terminal cancer. It represents what perhaps was going through his mind during the drive back from the hospital.
Lyrics
All the way home I thought to myself "Where did I go wrong? Why couldn't this be someone else?" All the way home I fought back the tears So many lost years So many lost hopes and dreams that I thought would come true But I guess they weren't meant to be So all the way home I tried to believe that something like this couldn't happen to me All the way home I thought of the way I spent every moment finding ways to drown my pain And all the way home I cursed at the sky and wondered how I ever got here at all It all started so well But I guess I just played too long So all the way home I tried to admit that this was my life and I made a mess of it All the way home I thought about life how we pay our money and we roll the dice Around and around and around it goes and where it stops nobody knows and all the way home I cried and I cried at how quickly I've come to the end of the line All the way home I never believed that something like this could happen to me I never thought it would end this way with so much at stake and so much thrown away And all the way home I thought to myself "If this is the end why couldn't it happen to somebody else?"
