If I Get Home

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On nights like this when I can't sleep
I count the tally marks on the wall
516 days and nights of this
I get so cold I rub my hands until they're raw
I got captured in a firefight
I got drafted in a war
I won't die for goddamned stars and stripes
I won't kill a man. Nothing could kill me more

If I get home
I'm gonna drift to sleep like a river log
And remember what it's like to have a dream
If I get home
I'm gonna drink black coffee every morning
And watch the sky get painted in the east

Baby you must've puked your guts
When the army found our house and rang the bell
Knowing that I can't stop your hands from shaking
Or your pale blue eyes from crying is the worst of Dante's Hells
What do you tell our little girl
When she asks you when her daddy's coming back
I can still see her in the kitchen chair
I'd hide my face with my two hands
And take them down again to make her laugh

If I get home
I hope my daughter comes running in her baby doll dress
I'd pick her up and spin around in the street
If I get home
I hope my dog comes racing through the field
Like a car chase that's in hot pursuit of me

If I get home
I'd wake you up with a kiss. You'd spread your legs apart
like pages of sacred poems only I could read
If I get home
I'm gonna go stark mad, talk like God
And promise you that I won't ever leave

If I get home
If I get home
If I get home

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from If I Get Home, released November 22, 2013
Guitar, vocals, and harmonica by David Campbell.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by David Campbell.

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Lovely Houses Indianapolis, Indiana

Lovely Houses is the music of songwriter David Campbell. Through thoughtful lyricism and melody, he illuminates the beauty in sadness, healing darkness into light.

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