The long Ride home - Patty Griffin

http://T--h-o-t-e-l--Fic-2.skyblog.com. Prologue.
The long ride home by Patty Griffin.

Long black limousine
Shiniest car I've ever seen
The back seat is nice and clean
She rides as quiet as a dream
Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
With me riding in this car, and you flying through the clouds

I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun set like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home

One day I took your tiny hand
Put your finger in the wedding band
Your daddy gave a piece of land
We laid ourselves the best of plans
Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said
How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red

I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun set like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home

Headlights staring at the driveway
The house is dark as it can be
I go inside and all is silent
It seems as empty as the inside of me

I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun set like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long, on the long
Oh the long, on the long
On the long ride home

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Music

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• fiction

[MrPerry61]

this is on the soundtract to Elizabethtown, a great soundtract, a great movie

[zesoupmakar]

Shes a great songwriter, I wish more people knew about her

[Tutone66]

@lisalooism I am certain this is Patty, during a live performance.

[lisalooism]

This is pretty, but this is definitely not Patty. No one can quite nail it the way Ms. Griffin can. ;)

[MistressChococat]

what a beautiful sad and heart wrenching song.

[linzief]

I miss my mommy

[GoddessPottery]

@abba21 ... agreed.

[abba21]

I've probably listened to this song 40 times now, and I've never made it through without crying.

[TheFamous1day]

Patty touches my soul too. Her music has so much emotion.

[slaystrom17]

@kdono15 your crazy. patty's music always sooths me where no other music can. cheesy but it touches the soul

[kdono15]

i feel like i've lost a sense of closure listening to this. it always makes me feel sad. regretful even. i don't know why