GOING BACK TO ME

 

Looking at a sea of red tail lights

All headin’ God knows where into the night

I’m tired but there’s a long, long way to go

To get to that place I used to know

 

Me and this old Oldsmobile, Ain’t headed back to Bakersfield

Or back to some old boyfriend’s heart I broke

 

I’m goin' down a northern road and it, don’t even matter where it goes, I’m just goin’

I’m looking for the girl I was I swear, I’m gonna find it sure enough, I just know it

I gave it all I had, but now I’m taking what I need

Leaving someone, they all wanted me to be

And I’m going back to me, going back to me

 

I miss the me who loved, to laugh a lot

Who could see the glass half full, even when it was not

Who believed this big old world, was hers to own

Never was afraid of the great unknown

 

Took a while but now I see, I can’t live, someone else’s dream

I gotta make this journey all alone

 

I’m goin’ down a northern road and it, don’t even matter where it goes, I’m just goin’

I’m looking for the girl I was I swear, I’m gonna find it sure enough, I just know it

I gave it all I had, but now I’m taking what I need

Leaving someone, they all wanted me to be

And I’m going back to me 

Yeah, yeah, going back to me

 

I’ve got one hand on the wheel, and the other waving free

Saying goodbye to the me, I could never be

Yeah I’m going back, going back to me

 

Looking at a sea of red tail lights

I’m getting God knows where into the night

I’m going back, I’m going back, I’m going back to me