"Back To Ohio" Lyrics

Back To Ohio

There was a place I used to know

Way back in my youth

Under the shade of a big plum tree

I could find just a little truth

Well the years they came and the years they went

And nothing stayed the same

Every morning the sun came up

Something else had changed

Sometimes at night underneath the stars

I let my worries go

I close my eyes and I go back

Back to Ohio

The first time that I fell in love

Was under that same sky

And when my heart was broken

Those same stars watched me cry

I changed who I was, and where I lived

I changed what I believed

It taught me how to grow up fast

It taught me how to leave

One day I turned my back and packed my things

Headed out down the road

Didn’t know if I’d ever go back

Back to Ohio

I found a new home while I was gone

And sort of settled in

It surprised me just how easily

I put on a new skin

For twelve years now I’ve been away

More changes come and gone

In a way I’d like to stay here

But the pull is just too strong

I don’t know where I’m headed next

But something I do know

Where ever my road leads me I’ll

Pass through Ohio

Because sometimes when I'm headed west

And the stars are all aglow

I look out behind me and

My back's to Ohio

Back to Ohio

hello, world

Well, it only took me eight years, but I finally have a full-on website! I seriously started imagining something like this in 2009 (and I know this because I still have some of the old .html files kicking around) and it took me well over 2,400 days to actually finish it. And even that's not a tale of diligence and persistence in the face of all obstacles; it's more a tale of 2017 technology finally providing access to WYSIWYG site builders that are free and so easy to use that I don't need to learn anything before clicking "Publish" for the first time.

Anyway, this site will now be a home for all the fun stuff I do and make when I'm not working, including new music, new photos, and new writing (which runs the gamut from longer essays, shorter stories and/or poems, to dumb blog posts like this one).

Hopefully you think it is cool, and, by extension, think that I'm cool. Otherwise I don't know how I'll go on.