[Intro - Solo electric guitar, wailing] [Verse - Fingerpicked acoustic, soft bass] [Pre-Chorus - Rhodes piano building] [Chorus - Full band, layered distorted guitars] [Verse - Piano and acoustic, restrained] [Pre-Chorus - Building tension] [Chorus - Full band] [Bridge - Solo piano, intimate, builds slowly] [Final Chorus - Key change up, full band, emotional peak] [Outro - Soft guitar fade out] [Verse] Drove the old road back last night Every porch light burning bright Same old gate, same rusted hinge Same old house, but nothing's mine I can hear it in the walls Echoes of a dozen calls Laughing loud across the kitchen floor Nothing here like this before [Pre-Chorus] And I know it's not the same Every season turns to rain [Chorus] I still know this road by heart Every mile, every turn where we'd start The radio still knows our song But I don't sing along The melody is right, and everything is wrong And I'm still standing where we were A long, long way from home [Verse] The house got sold in the spring Now there's strangers doing everything Someone else is where we slept And they painted over where we wept Somewhere down that quiet hall Your name is fading off the wall That's the sound that never stops That's the sound that brings me down [Pre-Chorus] And I know it's not the same Nothing here remembers my name [Chorus] I still know this road by heart Every mile, every turn where we'd start The radio still knows our song But I don't sing along The melody is right, and everything is wrong And I'm still standing where we were A long, long way from home [Bridge] Time won't do what I won't do Time won't say what I can't say I'm still the boy who waited in the rain Still the boy who came back anyway [Final Chorus] I still know this road by heart Every mile, every turn where we'd start The radio still knows our song But I don't sing along The melody is right, and everything is wrong And I'm still standing where we were A long, long way from home [Outro] A long, long way from home A long, long way from home