Going Back/Going Home
Butch Walker

I'm not happy with myself these days

I took the best parts of the script and I made them all cliche

And this red bandanna is surely going to fade

Even though it's the only thing the fire didn't take


Everybody says you'll grow a lot from this experience

Maybe become Zen, after a while become a president

Blessings get disguised sometimes but all I know

Is I finally know the difference

Between going back and going home


There's a lady on my block that has a kid

As he swims in the above ground pool, she seals up the lid

And he thinks it's kind of normal that she hides

Up the cuts and all the bruises, she says it's warpaint for the eyes


She tells her son she did the best she could as she buries dad

Maybe he'll grow up to be a man unlike his father did

As I leave the driveway for the northern snow

They'll finally know the difference

Between going back and going home, yeah


Cut to a life being born in sixty nine

Middle class suburbs, every thing's fine

Fondue parties, my mom and my dads

Drinks being drunk and fights being had


I lost my virginity to a girl in my band

She was four years older, she made me a man

So addicted to sex every chance that I got

With whoever I wanted until I got caught


So I took my penicillin and I took my band


To a town made of glitter girls and cocaine friends

Got handed the dream by the age of eighteen

Saw more than most people that I know had ever seen


Played every bar, drank till black and blue

Did the morning show bullshit and went to China too

Where they left us to die without a ticket to flee

Inciting a riot, we were only twenty three


Packed it up, started over just as fast as we can

Selling tapes, making merch in the back of a van

Living hand to mouth for the next five years

Took up drinking wine, gave up drinking beer


Signed another big deal with A Devil In A Dress

A one hit wonder I think described it best

Decided to burn out than to fade away

Went back to the van the very next day


Built it up, made a living without any help

Made amazing friends if I say so myself

If living like this at thirty eight is a bore

Then come on god, please give me thirty eight more


Everybody knows I've seen a lot, yeah, I'm experienced

Makes you feel so old after a while just like our president

Every time I come back in this town I know

I finally know the difference

Between going back and going home

Yeah, going back and going home


  Purchase "Going Back/Going Home"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Going Back/Going Home" Video   Play Spotify "Going Back/Going Home" Song   View Wikipedia "Going Back/Going Home" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Butch Walker Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Going Back/Going Home"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Butch Walker

  "Ladies And Gentleman.. ""The Let's Go Out Tonites...   #1 Summer Jam   21+   Afraid of Ghosts   Alicia Amnesia   Answering Machine Girl   ATL   Autumn Leaves   Baby Come Home   Bed On Fire   Best Thing You Never Had   Best Thing You Never Had   Bodegas and Blood   Bullet Belt   Can We Just Not Talk About Last Night   Chrissie Hynde   Closest Thing To You I'm Gonna Find   Coming Home   Coming Home   Day Drunk   Days\/Months\/Years   Descending   Diary of a San Fernando Sexx Star   Don't Move   Don't You Think Someone Should Take You Home   Dont Move   Dublin Crow   East Coast Girl   Every Single Body Else   Far Away from Close   Father's Day   Get Down   Good Times   Hearts On Parade   Hell Yeah!   Here Comes The...   Highs and Lows   Hot Girls In Good Moods   Hot Girls In Good Moods   How Are Things, Love   I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart   I Love You   I've Been Waiting For This   I've Been Waiting For This   I’ve Been Waiting For This   I’ve Been Waiting for This   If (Jeannie's Song)   Indie Queen   Into The Black   Into The Black   Irish Exit   Joan   Just Be Good Until Then   Ladies and Gentlemen   Ladies And Gentlemen, The Let's Go Out Tonites   Laid   Last Flight Out   Let It Go Where It's Supposed To   Let It Go Where It's Supposed To   Let It Go Where It’s Supposed To   Lights Out   Ludlow Expectations   Maybe It's Just Me   Maybe Won't Do   Mexican Coke   Mixtape   My Way   Open Happiness (Final Mix)   Over Your Head   Passed Your Place, Saw Your Car, Thought Of You   Peachtree Battle   Promise   Race Cars   Race Cars And Goth Rock   Record Store   Rock Vocal Power   Separation Anxiety   Ships In A Bottle   Since You've Been Gone [Cover]   So At Last   Sober   Something Real   Song Without A Chorus   Song Without A Chorus   Spark: Lost   Stale Line   State Line   Stateline   Stay Gold   Still Drunk   Suburbia   Sucker Punched   Summer Of '89   Sunny Day Real Estate   Sweethearts   Synthesizers   Take Tomorrow (One Day at a Time)   Thank You Note   The 3 Kids In Brooklyn   The Dark   The Everlasting Fall   The Geeks Get the Girls   They Don't Know What We Know   Trash Day   Trash Day (Single)   Trouble   Uncomfortably Numb   Vessels (Demo)   When Canyons Ruled The City   When Canyons Ruled The City   Where Did We Go Wrong   Wilder in the Heart   You Belong With Me

Related Songs

  Get Away - Going Home  Every Second Counts - Going Home  Act 7, Scene 8 - Going Home  Going Back Home - JBM  Going Back Home - Son Seals  GOING BACK HOME - Dr. Feelgood  Going Back Home - Howlin' Wolf  Going Going.... Home - Mike & The Mechanics  Going Going.... Home - Mike & The Mechanics  Going Home - Sara Groves  Going Home - Blue James Band  Going Home - Kinghorse  Going Home - Sugar  Going Home - Son Seals  Going Home - Dr. Dog  Going Home - Vonnegutt  Going Home - Christopher Denny  Going Home - Santana  Going Home - Bill Monroe  Going Home - John Lee Hooker  Going Home - Mott The Hoople  Going Home - Aaron Neville  Going Home - Bert Jansch  Going Home - Sophie Zelmani  Going Home - Inina Gap  Going Home - Marc Broussard  Going Home - Mozella  Going Home - Nothington  Going Home - Screeching Weasel  Going Home - Capsule  Going Home - Fun Boy Three  Going Home - The Blues Band  Going Home - The Hippos  Going Home - Attendant 250  Going Home - The Cathedrals  Going Home - Lauren Pritchard  Going Home - Clifton Williams  Going Home - Rolling Stones  Going Home - Randy Newman  Going Home - Gilbert O'sullivan  Going Home - CALLmeKAT  Going Home - Van Morrison  going home - David Usher  Going Home - Leo Sayer  Going Home - B.B. King  Going Home - Velvert Turner Group  Going Home - Bill Gaither  Going Home - Disciple  Going Home - Electric Light Orchestra  Going Home - Goldfinger  Going Home - Elvis Presley  Going Home - Alice Cooper  Going Home - Alvin Lee  Going Home - Andrew Johnston  GOING HOME - The Renaissance  GOING HOME - The Rolling Stones  Going Home - Mary Fahl  Going Home - Brian Wilson  Going Home - Brian Wilson  Going Home - Kim Simmonds  Going Home - Annie Haslam  Going Home - Leonard Cohen  Going Home - Libera  Going Home - Gilbert O'Sullivan  Going Home - Country Joe McDonald  Going Home - The Adicts  Going Home - Cris Cab  Going Home - BoDeans  Going Home - Brett Bigelow  Going Home - Luna  Going Home - Charlie Haden  GOING HOME - Renaissance  Going Home - Half Japanese  I'm Going Back Home - Nina Simone  Going Back - Olivia Newton-John  Going Back - Bill Drummond  Going Back - Diana Ross  Going Back - Phil Collins  Going Back - Neil Young  Going Back - Carole King  Going Back - Outfield  Going Back - Dusty Springfield  Going Back - The Move  Going Back - Bell X1  Going Back - Tracy Chapman  Going Back - Queen  Going Back - Quentin Miller   Going Back - The Biggie Sound  Going Big Or Going Home - Early Ray  Going Going - Mesmi  Goin' Home - Conway Twitty  Goin' Home - Conway Twitty  Intro (Going Home) - Harbours  Going Home Tomorrow - Dr. John  Going Home Tomorrow - Son Seals  Going Home Tomorrow - Bill Haley  Going Home Tomorrow - The Jimi Hendrix Experience  Going Home Time - The Cure  Going Home [DVD] - Bill Gaither  Going Home [Instrumental] - Dire Straits  Going Home [Instrumental] - Yocahuna  Not Going Home - The Elected  Not Going Home - Faithless  Cheryl's Going Home - Cher  Never Going Home - Jeff Beck  Never Going Home - Phantogram  I'm Going Home - Tanita Tikaram  We're Going Home - Montrose  Going On Home - Crystal Lewis  I'm Going Home - Chris De Burgh  I'm Going Home - Hank Williams  Cheryl's Going Home - Attila the Stockbroker  Going Home Tonight - Allison Crowe  I'm Going Home - Alvin Lee  I'm Going Home - Alvin Lee  I'm Going Home...  I'm Going Home - Kingston Trio  When Going Home - Bering Strait  Going Home [Instrumental] - New-Soul-Lution  Not Going Home - Armin Van Buuren  I'm Going Home - Arlo Guthrie  I'm Going Home - Hootie & The Blowfish  I'm Going Home - Rocky Horror Picture Show  Ain’t Going Home - Ace Wilder  Going Home Tomorrow - Little Richard  I’m Going Home - Lil Wyte  I'm Going Home - The Zombies  I'm Going Home - Ten Years After  Not Going Home - Belle Epoque  I'm Going Home - Dr. Birras  I'm Going Home - Buffy Sainte-Marie  Going Up Home - Chris Hillman  Not Going Home - Great Good Fine Ok   I'm Going Home - Hootie & The Blowfish  WE'RE GOING HOME - Ian Thompson  I'm Going Home - Richard O'Brien  I'm Going Home - Spencer Day  Going Back West - Jimmy Cliff  Going Back West - Boney M.  Going Back [Remix] - Queen  Going Back [Video] - Phil Collins  Not Going Back - Childish Gambino  Never Going Back - Lil B  Never Going Back - Samantha Crain  I'm Going Back - Jadakiss  Going Back West - Boney M.  I'm Going Back - Trace Adkins  Never Going Back - Any Given Sunday Soundtrack  Im Going Back - Atlanta Rhythm Section  You're Going Back - The Tallest Man on Earth  Never Going Back - Lovin Spoonful  Not Going Back - Nas  Never Going Back - Covenant Worship  Never Going Back - Collin Raye  Never Going Back - Big K.R.I.T.  Not Going Back - Brenton Brown  I'm Going Back - Rachael Yamagata  Never Going Back - Caveman  Stateside - David Bowie  Stateside - Bowie David  Decision/Indecision - Atomic Rooster  Decision / Indecision - Atomic Rooster  Bread Upon The Water - Gaither Vocal Band  Louie Louie, Go Home - Bowie David  Louie Louie, Go Home - David Bowie  Take You Back - Alex Clare  Gold Chains - Beck  Back Back Train - Aerosmith  Going Going Gone - Palo Alto  Going, Going, Gone - Richard Hell And The Voidoids  Going, Going, Gone - John Farnham  Going, Going, Gone - The Posies  Going Going Gone - Mike Capone  Going Going Gone - Dannii Minogue  Going, Going, Gone - Information Society  Going Going Gone - The Felice Brothers  Going, Going, Gone - Neal McCoy  Going, Going, Gone - Neal McCoy  Going, Going, Gone - Dylan Bob  Going, Going, Gone - Bob Dylan  Going, Going, Gone - Stars  Going Going Gone - Exodus  Going Going Gone - Dave Dudley  Going Going Gone - Brook Benton  Going, Going, Gone - Old 97's  Going, Going, Gone - Bryan White  "Going, Going, Gone" - Lee Greenwood  Going, Going, Gone - Rua Parker  Going, Going, Gone - Cochran Tammy  Going, Going, Gone - Letters And Lights  Going, Going, Gone - Posies  Why Is Everybody Going Home - Leo Sayer  Going - Ya Boy  Going - Afterglow Radio  Going - Bow Wow  Going - Rich The Kid   Home - Krystl   Strangest Blues - Savoy Brown  Fare Thee Well (Acoustic Version) - Whitesnake  Fare Thee Well - Whitesnake