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, and 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, and 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