I'm sittin' in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination

On a tour of one-night-stands, my suitcase and guitar at hand


And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band




Homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound


Home, where my thoughts escape, at home, where my music's playin'


Home, where my love lies waitin' silently for me




Every day's an endless dream of cigarettes and magazines


And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories

And every stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be





Homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound

Home, where my thoughts escape, at home, where my music's playin'


Home, where my love lies waitin' silently for me




Tonight I'll sing my songs again, I'll play the game and pretend


But all my words come back to me, in shades of mediocrity


Like emptiness and harmony, I need someone to comfort me




Homeward bound, oh I wish I was homeward bound


Home, where my thoughts escape, where my music's playin'

Where my love lies waitin' silently for me, silently for me