Well, she looks so small, she looks so frail
It was like the world forgot her as she stood outside the jail
They sit and stare, they rarely speak
She comes to see him the same time every week
Never wants to leave, but she knows she must
Then the yellow cat comes right on time
And scoops her up like a speck of dust
Just when it's time to go home
It's time to go home
Where the night stayed too long
In a world that's just gone wrong
It's time to go home
How did one summer become nineteen years?
The Alaskan winters took their toll
And then they made it clear
The gillnets and seiners, salmon and crab
The dull-eyed girls of Ketchikan
That took all that I had
I could set the boat and cash the whole thing down
Move back to the forty-eight
Just tell stories back in that small town
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
Where the night stayed too long
In a world that's just gone wrong
It's time to go home
Where your T-shirt's clean like your donqueries
And empty days you will be on your way overseas
Sit on the bed with a warm six-pack
Aw, it's not like how they said
But it's too late now to take it back
So you make some calls, but no one's home
You nurse your bears, spend the long night
By the telephone
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
Where the night stayed too long
In a world that's just gone wrong
It's time to go home
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