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All the Way Home

from All the Way Home by Ben Travis

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This is the title track from my new album "All the Way Home." This was the first song written for the album. It was written just after I drove to Nashville with my dad and found out he had terminal cancer. It represents what perhaps was going through his mind during the drive back from the hospital.

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All the way home
I thought to myself
"Where did I go wrong?
Why couldn't this be someone else?"
All the way home
I fought back the tears
So many lost years
So many lost hopes and dreams
that I thought would come true
But I guess they weren't meant to be

So all the way home
I tried to believe
that something like this
couldn't happen to me

All the way home
I thought of the way
I spent every moment
finding ways to drown my pain
And all the way home
I cursed at the sky
and wondered how I
ever got here at all
It all started so well
But I guess I just played too long

So all the way home
I tried to admit
that this was my life
and I made a mess of it

All the way home
I thought about life
how we pay our money
and we roll the dice
Around and around
and around it goes
and where it stops
nobody knows

and all the way home
I cried and I cried
at how quickly I've come
to the end of the line

All the way home
I never believed
that something like this
could happen to me
I never thought
it would end this way
with so much at stake
and so much thrown away

And all the way home
I thought to myself
"If this is the end
why couldn't it happen to
somebody else?"

credits

from All the Way Home, track released June 1, 2004

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Ben Travis Nashville, Tennessee

I’m a Nashville-based audio engineer and producer. I work primarily with singer/songwriters and bands with original music to help them create a musical product they can be proud of without paying the prices of major studios.

I'm also an independent artist and songwriter. My music invites listeners to think and ask meaningful questions about the world around them.
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