Oh I'm sitting by the railway station

Got a ticket for my destination

On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in 

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 thought's a straying

And home where my music's playing

And home where my love lies waiting

Silently for me



Each day becomes an endless stream

Of cigarettes and magazines

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

factories

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

be

Homeward bound I wish I was homeward bound



Tonight I'll sing my songs again

Play the game and I'll pretend oh yeah

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

Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me 

and take me

Homeward bound I wish I was homeward bound