The Longer Way

hey can you see that this is not the easiest way
I could hardly say some day I'll miss this pack on my back
or this toilsome track

chorus 1:
through these thorn covered thickets
lies the longer way home
I must pass through the night
I'm on the longer way home

see how the straight and narrow path winds endlessly
I would scarcely think some day I'll miss this dust in my eyes
or the lonesome cries

chorus 1

chorus 2:
through these hard jagged mountains
lies the longer way home
I must cross in the night
I'm on the longer way home
this way leads home

a bitter wind blows in my face
as I walk down this road
wandering from place to place
will I ever be home

chorus 1

chorus 2

Dane Tate
Billy McPherson (bridge)
12/31/04

© 2011 Dane Tate

Exodus 15:22
Inspired by a message by Dr. Tim Walker, 11/04

Recorded in Tecumseh and Norman, OK

Dane: guitars, bass, drum loops, vocals
Billy McPherson: keyboards, vocals