The long Ride home - Patty Griffin

T--h-o-t-e-l--F.... Prologue.
The long ride home by Patty Griffin.
Long black limousine
Shiniest car I've ever seen
The back seat is nice and clean
She rides as quiet as a dream
Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
With me riding in this car, and you flying through the clouds
I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun set like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home
One day I took your tiny hand
Put your finger in the wedding band
Your daddy gave a piece of land
We laid ourselves the best of plans
Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said
How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red
I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun set like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home
Headlights staring at the driveway
The house is dark as it can be
I go inside and all is silent
It seems as empty as the inside of me
I've had some time to think about you
And watch the sun set like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long, on the long
Oh the long, on the long
On the long ride home

[@JohnnysCoolStuff]

This is the saddest song I've ever heard. I don't know why I like it.

[@TheFamous1day]

Patty touches my soul too. Her music has so much emotion.

[@maszlagma]

This song introduced me to Patty Griffin! I got a stereo system a year ago and the soundtrack of the film Elizabethtown was in the CD-tray. This song was on it and I loved it right the first I listened to it. I had to Google it to find out it was by Patty Griffin whom I had never heard of so I decided to look her up! One of the best discoveries I had! She is a hidden gem!

[@kdono15]

i feel like i've lost a sense of closure listening to this. it always makes me feel sad. regretful even. i don't know why

[@stellasblues1]

When my eldest brother died a few years back, I found a copy of this song with O Heavenly Day and another song, it lived in my layer fr many trips between Vt and Boston and back.this song helps.

[@allicambridge2335]

After reading this comment I might cry, and I’m not an emotional person

[@allicambridge2335]

R.I.P your brother, just remember he is watching over you from a better place

[@timirvine8925]

God-damn thank-you for this!!

[@pennythompson3508]

so beautiful my mom sang this to me as a lullaby now i sing it to my baby

[@msmithson6345]

How can such a sad song make me feel beautiful?

[@deadheadmark1]

Sherif... I LOVE Radio Paradise! Patty is a hell'ova singer song writer! This song hits deep. I can see her associated with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings! This song Rocks on so ,may levels!

[@MrPerry61]

this is on the soundtract to Elizabethtown, a great soundtract, a great movie

[@hopkins247]

This song got me through a dark time.

[@dorukcelo]

Very good song from my beautiful and lonely country Turkey..

[@donaldfraser4494]

Wow

[@shesingsFORall]

I'll be giving props to Miss Patty tonight here in Monterey as I close my show with this song. Thank you PG! njomusic.com

[@zesoupmakar]

Shes a great songwriter, I wish more people knew about her

[@jpazli123]

A truly great lyricist!!!

[@nimbuscloud8166]

This song always reminds me of my mom's funeral. She died the year it was released.

[@equilibriallc4277]

Nimbus Cloud if this was FB I would heart.. sorry for your loss.. I don’t get the tiny hand in a wedding band.. wouldn’t her mans hand have been bigger than hers?

[@chases12]

@@equilibriallc4277 It's sung from the husband's perspective.

[@Tutone66]

@lisalooism I am certain this is Patty, during a live performance.

[@GoddessPottery]

@abba21 ... agreed.

[@pennythompson3508]

if you like this try watching "A team" by Ed Shermeen

[@danislaiperez993]

......Tengo algo de tiempo para pensar en tí Y ver ponerse el sol como una piedra Tengo algo de tiempo para pensar en tí En el largo camino a casa

[@caddis]

can i ask where this version came from?

[@friedbleu]

wondering the same