There's a mad little kid at the top of the stairs   And his eyes they gather no light   And his mom and his dad they're too high to care   As his cries drift off in the night       And I've been that kid yeah it's true   And I've been both of those parents too   I'm ashamed when I've lost my way   But I'd do anything just to come home to you       It's the twilight captures the sorrow of time   In between the life and the lived   I press on through the darkness so thoroughly blind   To a light the new morning gives       And it sparkles like each new tomorrow   I drank up my last yesterday   Tasted sweet joy and bittersweet sorrow   But I'd do anything just to come home to you       There's a meanness inside and it shivers my bones   That's the thing about mercy I guess   There's no man so wicked he cannot come home   Nor so good he passes each test       As the fires of memories burn me   The grace of your love returns me   To this most traveled of highways   Where I'd do anything just to come home to you   I would do anything just to come home to you