And in the midst of the explosion comin' down   You sit barefoot on your porch   And all the times you'd say we'd be sorry now   But I'm not sorry now, I'm not sorry now      You were talkin' 'bout the cornfields passin' by   Out the window of the bus   And all the times you swore that you'd get back there somehow   That's just talkin' loud, never thought I'd be here now      So hey there, sister Nebraska   Sittin' there, sweetly pigeon-toed   It's been a long cold winter   Now I'm comin' home      California's just a memory I've left behind   Colorado come and gone   The setting sun paints the rear-view mirror red   As we start headin' south   It'll be any day now      Mountains fall away to leave us on the plains   As we relax into the ride   And all those unpaid bills, well, I left them all behind   'Cause I'm not turnin' back   All my bags are packed      Hey there, sister Nebraska   Sittin' there, sweetly pigeon-toed   It's been a long cold winter   Now I'm comin' home      This is gone and we've returned to what we left   Turned to pictures packed away   And I will call you up and say:   "Ain't this life a riot?"   And you will understand   And you will understand      Hey there, sister Nebraska   Sittin' there, sweetly pigeon-toed   It's been a long cold winter   Now I'm comin' home   Now I'm comin' home