Track 5 of the album The Long Way Home · 2013
Can't Sit Still This Evening
“I straighten every picture frame when I can't settle. The song just taps its foot until you give in and go out.”
acoustic · restless folk · wistful acoustic · 3:31
Lyrics
I've straightened every picture frame I've watered every plant twice I've made the tea and let it cool And that did not feel right There's a hum beneath the floorboards There's a tide inside my chest I can't sit still this evening I can't find a place to rest So I'll walk to the end of the lane And I'll walk to the edge of the town Till the restless feeling softens And the night comes settling down I can't sit still this evening But I know the way back home The light is on, the door is open And I'm never really alone The clock is loud, the book is dull The window shows me nothing new The swallows left a week ago And I would like to follow too But the fields are full of crickets And the road is soft with dew I can't sit still this evening But the night is good for you So I'll walk to the end of the lane And I'll walk to the edge of the town Till the restless feeling softens And the night comes settling down I can't sit still this evening But I know the way back home The light is on, the door is open And I'm never really alone Some days the heart is a kite Pulling hard against the string Some days it wants a wider sky Some days it wants nothing And that's all right, that's all right A restless heart is still a heart And it knows its own way back by night So I'll walk to the end of the lane And I'll walk to the edge of the town Till the restless feeling softens And the night comes settling down I can't sit still this evening But I know the way back home The light is on, the door is open And I'm never really alone I know the way back home I know the way back home