There’s a room in a house on a street in this town where I’ve left a little history
Everybody’s got a place that they go back to or a place that they just can’t be
Growing up my mom would call us home from the corner of the street
Seems like every little thing that I’ve done since was a promise that I could not keep
The light tonight is fading fast when the lamp lights lead us home
There is nothing ever felt so good, so sad, so sweet, so gone
Well my father worked down at Morris’ yard out past the railroad tracks
Where the freight train wheels would whine like dogs that got caught up in a trap
He taught me how to be a man in a thousand quiet ways
And there are things your learn from factory men that they never need to say
The light tonight is fading fast when the lamp lights lead us home
There is nothing ever felt so good, so sad, so sweet, so gone
So there’s a girl in a room in house somewhere and I don’t see her these days
She’s got the light of December in her eyes, she’s like August when she sways
Now everybody’s got their secrets, everybody’s got their sins
I wish I’d let you carve me up, I wish you’d let me in
And we’re all bathed in the dust and the rubble of the consequences of our past
If I gave you my hand, would you pull me out because these days goes by so fast?
The light tonight is fading fast when the lamp lights lead us home
There is nothing ever felt so good, so sad, so sweet, so gone
The light goes out and the sky turns black now that everybody’s gone
There is nothing ever felt so good, so sad, so sweet, so long
So Long
words and music by Christopher Moody