• I get out of bed
    With you in my head
    I haven’t seen you for weeks

    You’ve been traveling
    I’ve been unraveling
    Miles of memories

    And yet something has changed
    I’ve been rearranged
    In the time that you’ve been gone

    Found my keys
    Unlocked my scenery
    And now I’m journeying home

    And I’m curious
    Ever so curious
    Where you would go
    If you could travel in me
    Where you would go
    If you would travel in me

    Would you visit my kings
    And dine on fancy things
    Would you love me little crooked pinky toe?

    Would we stay up all night
    Singing songs of delight
    Lost in love, with no place to go

    I would write you a poem
    Filled with flowers and loam
    In the colors of earth tones and red

    I’d plant it, deep in your heart
    And there we would start,
    To live the dreams that dance in our head.

    And I’m curious
    Ever so curious
    Where you would go
    If you could travel in me
    Where you would go
    If you could travel in me.

    Poetry interlude:

    You asked me where I wanted to go
    On this years vacation
    To myself, I reply,
    You look up surprised
    But we could go to Paris or Cairo 
    Visit the pyramids

    Take me to myself , love
    To the temple is that where you want to go?
    Yes, I want to go to the temple and offer my offerings
    I would like to do some deep chanting and panting

    I’ve seen all the hotels and motels
    I’ve spent hours in a car with a map in my hands
    This vacation, I want to spend hours in bed,
    With you in my hands

    I’ve spent hours on a train
    So please let me explain

    Before I pack up the bags
    and close down the house
    Have the pressures of time
    I confess
    I hate going through security
    and being gruffly frisked
    I’ll take the risk
    Of no border control
    and lower my guard
    If we simply stay
    In the back yard

    I’m tired of moving from town to town
    This vacation, Journey Me Home

    No last minute fancy deals
    No planes to go insane
    No baggage on wheels
    Just skin on skin and one word
    Feel

    We can do the safari thing
    let our wild animals roam
    Born free, as you journey me home

    You’ll know where to go
    Go where the water flows
    Maybe we could get a boat and set sail
    Maybe Cairo after all
    I always did want to ride
    a camel

    Song
    As you drive my back roads
    and speak in secret codes
    the language we spoke as a child
    You’d say
    Iyay ovlay ooyay
    I’d say Iyay ovlay ouyay ootay
    Our hearts beating crazy and wild

    Please do ocean me
    Take me out to sea
    Where the gulls do dip and dive
    Leave your footprints on the beach
    Savor this ripe peach
    Nietzsche is dead yet
    God is so alive

    And I’m curious,
    ever so curious
    Where you would go if you could travel in me
    Where you would go if you could travel in me

    Outro:
    Journey Me Home
    Journey Me Home
    Oh, Love
    Journey Me Home

    Journey Me Home
    Journey Me Home
    Oh, Love
    Journey Me Home

    © KARA JOHNSTAD
    Album | Kara Johnstad
    Artist | Kara Johnstad