REASON TO GO HOME
(Sammi Smith)


Sammi Smith - 1976



Everybody's leavin' and goin' home
But I'll have one more cup of coffee and maybe I'll see someone I know
Someone to help me face the lonely hours until dawn
Oh, I wish I had a reason to go home

I guess I could go walkin' in the rain
But walkin' by myself, it just won't help to ease the pain
The pain of spendin' every day alone
Oh, I wish I had a reason to go home

Perhaps it would be easier to face the lonely nights
If I'd never had a love to call my own
But I can still remember the way things used to be
When there was more for me than emptiness to greet me

But now there's no one waitin' by the phone
And no one to even care if I never do come home
And as I walk the empty rainy streets, I softly say a prayer
Lord, give me one little reason to go home



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2019)