1 Meaning
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Letter Home Lyrics
Blue skies of April,
An 18 hour drive,
Atlanta at 3 a.m. I'm in New York City tonight.
My home, my heart, and my best friend.
Life has been pretty good,
Oh who am I kidding it's been grand.
Chorus:
And I'm thinking about this and that,
I'm thinking about the way it should be,
I've been thinking about the weight of the world,
And I've been thinking about the way it goes.
Dog days of summer,
Further on down the road.
All the kids just keep on dancin',
Long after the show.
My road, my heart, and my best friends
Life has been pretty strange,
All the freaks getting toasted on the range.
(chorus)
Heading into the harvest,
Working on a bridge.
One more trip to the left coast,
Wondering where it is.
My home, my heart, and my best friend.
I hever knew that it could be this way,
Ah, what the hell did I know anyway.
(chorus)
(chorus)
(chorus)
An 18 hour drive,
Atlanta at 3 a.m. I'm in New York City tonight.
My home, my heart, and my best friend.
Life has been pretty good,
Oh who am I kidding it's been grand.
Chorus:
And I'm thinking about this and that,
I'm thinking about the way it should be,
I've been thinking about the weight of the world,
And I've been thinking about the way it goes.
Further on down the road.
All the kids just keep on dancin',
Long after the show.
My road, my heart, and my best friends
Life has been pretty strange,
All the freaks getting toasted on the range.
(chorus)
Heading into the harvest,
Working on a bridge.
One more trip to the left coast,
Wondering where it is.
My home, my heart, and my best friend.
I hever knew that it could be this way,
Ah, what the hell did I know anyway.
(chorus)
(chorus)
(chorus)
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
Al:
"Letter Home" is just that - a letter home from our recent year on the road, 1997. Each verse is a page from each tour, each season. The song had given us some trouble for awhile, as evidenced by the various incarnations you may have heard since its inception. It went from being a simple country song to include an extended bridge with an odd-metered world beat extravaganza, and even became a reggae song at one point, before coming full circle and becoming the song it always was - a simple country song. And it wasn't until the end of our fall '97 tour, as we were returning home, that the song also 'returned home.' Life vs. art? Let's call it a draw.