[Verse 1] [F] I left the café by the grain mill gate With a paper map and a half-full tank Moon on the hood like a silver plate And your porch light winking through the bank [F] Passed the feed store, shut for the night Past the wash line, stiff with rain I sang your name in the dashboard glow Just to keep my hands from shaking [Pre-Chorus] [F] Mile by mile, the dark went soft At the bend where the cattails lean I knew that road by the hitching post And the red dirt seam in between [Chorus] [F] Take me home Take me home Where the front step knows my name [F] Take me home Take me home To the warm door in the rain [Verse 2] [F] Saw a fox at the fence-line ditch White tail flicking through the rye Mended barn roof, cracked and old Cutting shapes against the sky [F] Your mama’s screen door, your dog’s deep bark Your chipped blue mug by the sink I never knew a road could pull Like a fiddle on the brink [Pre-Chorus] [F] Then the porch beam caught my eye And the world turned honey slow You were standing there with your arms half-open Like you never let me go [Chorus] [F] Take me home Take me home Where the front step knows my name [F] Take me home Take me home To the warm door in the rain [Bridge] [F] Let the gravel hush Let the engine fade Let the miles fall off Like a borrowed shade [F] I’ve been gone too long Now I’m back in tune With the creak of the boards And the shape of the moon [Final Chorus] [F] Take me home Take me home Where the front step knows my name [F] Take me home Take me home To the warm door in the rain [F] Take me home Take me home I’m right where I began [F] Take me home Take me home To your open hands again