[00:00.589][Hook:]
[00:02.050]I told her you should go home
[00:05.515]It's better that way
[00:07.972]I wish I could come with you
[00:12.050]But I got to stay, but I got to stay
[00:24.372][Verse 1:]
[00:24.606]All aboard I heard them call your name
[00:27.076]I knew you got your ticket now you're on your way
[00:29.580]And it was hard to watch you wave goodbye
[00:32.229]I write you here and there with no need to reply
[00:34.803]It's just I lost a good friend in a time of need
[00:37.284]Like forever would be better but this time your free
[00:39.860]Hate you left us kind of selfish just to think that way
[00:42.628]You going home don't worry what you probably would say
[00:45.268]But yeah it hurts I smile at the thought of
[00:48.180]You At peace in your mind, no longer ache in your heart
[00:50.868]Finish and start, rise with the sun
[00:53.948]Finally hear your father say servant well done
[00:56.372]I strive to be half of what you was
[00:59.398]I'm just hoping that I can carry on your love
[01:01.956]And I regret all the times I had to leave you
[01:04.940]I promise I'mma see you when I see you
[01:06.621][Hook:]
[01:06.917]I told her you should go home
[01:10.212]It's better that way
[01:12.563]I wish I could come with you
[01:16.572]But I got to stay, but I got to stay
[01:23.772][Verse 2:]
[01:28.451]Your motherly hands used to usher Sunday mornings
[01:31.868]Played the tambourine so well
[01:34.558]Reminiscing on my granddaddy, shed tears as you looked at his pictures on the shelf
[01:39.308]Phone ringing everyday, friends gone away
[01:42.004]Wishing you could go, but you had to stay
[01:44.644]I sit and cried with you
[01:46.643]Soon the fellings of the past aware, one day that you pack your bags
[01:50.044]Turn to me and ask don't fret when I leave
[01:52.924]This earthly body of mine done did all of its deeds
[01:55.510]Crawled till it walked and held all it could breathe
[01:58.980]Carry on what I taught you was given thru he
[02:01.109]To you from me, in times like this believe
[02:06.763]I got a call like you used to get just the other day, they told me you'd gone home to stay
[02:11.084][Hook:]
[02:11.516]I told her you should go home
[02:15.076]It's better that way
[02:17.236]I wish I could come with you
[02:21.339]But I got to stay, but I got to stay
[02:29.916][Bridge:]
[02:31.196]Now I know what you meant when you used to say
[02:33.668]If I had wings, wings, wings
[02:38.227]I'd fly away, I'd fly away
[02:43.268]Lord, if I had wings, wings, wings
[02:49.028]I'd fly away,I'd fly away
[02:53.276][Hook:]
[02:54.651]I told her you should go home
[02:57.899]It's better that way
[03:00.020]I wish I could come with you
[03:04.676]But I got to stay, but I got to stay