Hard contemporary folk and acoustic rock
Lyrics
The Long Way Round
(c) 2018 Owen Hovenden
Fifty years
Of outback tracks
Sun in my eyes
Rain on my back
A thousand empty places
I 'm never going back
I took the long way round to get here
But I'm gonna take a short road back
Bent my back
looking for gold
seeking my fortune
breaking stone
But all I ever made
was a hole
I took the long way round to get here
I'm gonna take a shortcut home
Looked for a woman
I could adore
Never found a woman
Just a heap of scorn
The only love I ever found
was from a whore
I took the long way round to get here
I'm going back for more
Bridge
I don't know 'bout the meaning of life
Or what I'm supposed to say
Just use me like a signpost
and head the other way
Now the cancer's got me
In a hospital bed
My body's hurting
From end to end
When death comes calling
I'll shake his hand
I took the long way round to get here
But it got me in the end
I took the long way round to get there
But I got there in the end
