Backyard Dreams

(hmmmmm) Dashboard glows, the engine's humming low

Looking at the porch light where I used to grow

With a heavy heart

and a script I wrote to say

I lost the spark,

I'm coming home today

Then I find the tape in the dusty glove box tray

A little cassette from a forgotten day

Pressing play on a voice so bold and clear

A seven-year-old kid with not a single fear

"I'm gonna change the world," he says to me

It was

never meant

to happen overnight

The longest roads can lead you to the light

Every fall is just a place to start

He built the dream,

I've got to keep the heart (yeah)

I turn the key and let the engine die

No more running, no more asking why

This isn't failure, it's just page fifteen

Of the wildest book

I have ever seen

It was

never meant to happen overnight

The longest roads can lead you to the light

Every fall is just a place to start

He built the dream,

I've got to keep the heart

Stepping out into the cool night air

Ready for the love waiting in there

Yeah, I've got the heart (oh-oh-oh)