Home Is Far Away

The road ahead is long
No empty rides in sight
Looks like it’s gonna rain
Today’s weight on my slumped shoulders
I just want to set it down for a bit
Home is far away

Nothing’s really changed
Stuck in this lonely role
After climbing that high bar
This life I’ve lived so far
What’s expected of me
Is just a little above those hands stretched high
The world’s standards, climbing higher like Everest
The closer I get to the peak, the more stress I feel
I know I can never rest
There’s no sleeping pill to quiet my complaints
So I bite my tongue and stay up all night
When I was young
The reason I was taught to line up is now clear
The complexity of online classes, it’s a paradox
Only glory remains, no space for humanity
Afraid of becoming ordinary, I dreamed
Now I envy the ordinary
As I stand all alone in the rain
If I don’t grow, growing pains just feel like pain

The road ahead is long
No empty rides in sight
Looks like it’s gonna rain
Today’s weight on my slumped shoulders
I just want to set it down for a bit
Home is far away

I’m getting more scared
Running but not sure what for, now my feet and heart
Just a dream of being Jimmy
Running behind is my only hope
Just take one more step, they urge me
When I look up, it’s a painful cliff
Looking back, a long line of expectations
Pretending to support me while pushing me away
The switch in my heart I wanted to flip someday
Got tangled up while I was breathing
A calculating I, the world’s hand reaching out
I don’t want to grab it, but being empty-handed scares me more
Even if I hold on, it’s just time that keeps moving forward
Looking at the cloudy sky
I used to have dreams too
But tonight, it’s hard to sleep

Could you stop for a moment for me?
It’s getting hard to walk
The wind is blowing and still

The road ahead is long
No empty rides in sight
Looks like it’s gonna rain
Today’s weight on my slumped shoulders
I just want to set it down for a bit
Home is far away

In this wide world, is there no place for me? (home is far away)
Am I all alone in this crowded street? (so, so far away)
Is there not one empty spot for me?
So far away

What am I supposed to do?
What was there to throw away besides money?
What am I supposed to do?
What was there to throw away besides money?
What am I supposed to do?
What was there to throw away besides money?
What path am I supposed to take?
Was there something like a dream for me, there was, there was
Was there something like a dream for me?