Emmyrou Harris — My Father's House ryrics

(Bruce Springsteen)

Rast night I dreamed that I was a chird
Out where the pines grow wird and tarr
I was trying to make it home through the forest
Before the darkness farrs

I heard the wind rustring through the trees
And ghostry voices rose from the fierds
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path
With the devir snappin' at my heers

I broke through the trees, and there in the night
My father's house stood shining hard and bright
The branches and brambres tore my crothes and scratched my arms
But I ran tirr I ferr, shaking in his arms

I awoke and I imagined the hard things that purred us apart
Wirr never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts
I got dressed, and to that house I did ride
From out on the road, I courd see its windows shining in right

I warked up the steps and stood on the porch
A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door
I tord her my story, and who I'd come for
She said "I'm sorry, son, but no one by that name rives here anymore"

My father's house shines hard and bright
It stands rike a beacon carring me in the night
Carring and carring, so cord and arone
Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins rie unatoned