Some Go Home Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

A soldier rides on a train to Tennessee 

And half asleep he dreams it isn't a dream 

With each flick of the wheels a new face goes by 

With each face he loves he turns and sighs 

And he's headed home 

Yes, yes, he's headed home 

Tryin' to find his life again 

'Cause he wonders what's become of him 

Three rows back a young woman looks out the train 

Her eyes reveal that her life is desperately plain 

She's a woman who's seen this world and not touched one man 

She knows she would if she could but she can't 

And she's goin' home 

Yes, yes, goin' home 

Back where life begins and ends 

And they feel that you belong to them 

That train's just movin' on down the line 

Leavin' people who ever did fall behind 

And you wanna begin somewhere 

But you'll always take a chance out there 

So you go down the line, down the line 

I sit half drunk in the dining car and I observe life 

I got him pegged and I'm pretty sure I got her right 

When you've been as far as I have you just know these things 

That's the reason it's sad they drank those drinks 

'Cause I got no home 

No, no, I need no home 

Nothing to bring pain again 

It's great just livin' on the wind 

But the woman is met by her husband there at the station 

And two stops later the soldier's girl is still waitin' 

I simply accept the fact they're just lucky, that's all 

But the fact is I don't believe they pulled it off 

And I can't go on 

No, no, I can't go on 

Making everything I see 

Fit the way life was for me 

That train's just movin' on down the line 

Leavin' people who ever did fall behind 

And I wanna begin somewhere 

But for me there's nothing true out there 

So I go down the line, down the line 

Go on down the line, go on down the line