Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Musician Credits

piano Cris Conerty
acoustic guitar Dave King
percussion James Walker
bass Daniel Powers
banjo Don Thomsen

Inspiration

After sorrow comes the sunshine! This song marks a turn in my life – when really good things started happening. I’ll let the song tell the story! One of my favorites to sing!

Lyrics

I saw him walking with his arm around her
And people called, they thought I’d want to know
After all the years we’d been together
I knew the time had come to let him go

I finally got the nerve to straight up tell him
“Honey you don’t know it, but I know everything.”
And he cried like a baby and told me that he loved me, and he’s so sorry
And I said, “I know, baby” then I packed up all my things

“It’s a long drive home, and that’s OK
I’ve got a lot of things to forget along the way.”
And that heartache in the rearview I left standin’ on the steps alone
I don’t mind a long drive home

I cried a lot of tears but I got better
And later on I fell in love again
We started life together with a promise to be honest
And then we bought ourselves a piece of country land

Now it’s a long drive home and that’s OK
I’m sittin’ by a man who loves me all the way
And that heartache in the rearview’s gettin’ smaller soon it’ll be gone
I don’t mind a long drive home, home

Yeah, it’s a long drive home, and I don’t care
Cause now I’ve got REAL love waitin’ for me there
And all that heartache in the rearview? I can’t see it anymore it’s gone, gone, gone
I don’t mind a long drive home, home
It’s been, it’s been, it’s been a long drive home
I’m home, I finally found my way back
Home, I’m home
It’s been a long drive home
Long drive home

© Jan 2011 Cris Conerty