Since You Left Home on Your Journey, Things Have Changed Around Here - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

It was fall when we came back

From a failed transplant out in Southern California

I remember crossing the border to Michigan

And feeling my heart almost leap out of my chest

I was back home

I felt whole again

I turned to Cathy, and she was beaming too

We laughed and talked about how it was so true

That you can never really appreciate home

Until you truly leave it

And how looking for something and not finding it

Can sometimes lead you to finding out

That you’ve had it all along