Pilgrim (You Can't Go Home)
from "Nashville Obsolete"
transcribed by Tim Herold


VERSE:

            
I won't get dr

             
unk no more, n

            
o more; the ol

             
d refrain it s

           
hines with use

             
While you sop 

             
your bread in 

            
barley-wine an

             
d mop your flo

             
or in tobacco 


juice

             
So they kicked

              
 you out of pa

         
radise, grinne

d and locked t

he garden gate

             
What those dev

              
ils called you

              
r greatest sin

            
, Gabriel and 

              
I called your 

       
great escape


CHORUS:
             
              

              
 Where're you 

            
gonna run 

             
          tell

              
 me, where wil

      
l you roam

              
        When y

             
ou can't go ho

              
me (you can't 

             
go home), you 

            
can't go home 

              
(you can't go 


home)

             
        Oh, pi

             
lgrim, you can

      
't go home


VERSE:

            
The gilded cag

            
e can not cont

             
ain the gypsie

                
s of the earth

            
The poet and t

            
he tumbleweed 

             
discuss what r

              
ootlessness is

        
 worth

             
And pity those

              
 who never fel

  
t inspiration'

s cold wet nos

e

             
it wakes you u

              
p out in the d

              
itch where you

            
're tumbling '

              
round where th

        
e four winds b

low


CHORUS:
             
              

              
 Where're you 

            
gonna run 

             
          tell

              
 me, where wil

      
l you roam

              
        When y

             
ou can't go ho

              
me (you can't 

             
go home), you 

            
can't go home 

              
(you can't go 


home)

             
        Oh, pi

             
lgrim, you can

      
't go home


VERSE:

            
The polaroids 

            
of Indio show 

             
desert flowers

          
 entwined

            
Their nakednes

             
s has already 

            
been blasted b

              
y the sands of

        
 time

             
But still you 

              
thought your s

              
ad Jane would 


wait for you t

ill who knows 

when

             
But that littl

              
e girl’s got a

              
 new tattoo to

            
 let you know 

             
you can’t go h

   
ome again


CHORUS:
             
              

              
 Where're you 

            
gonna run 

             
          tell

              
 me, where wil

      
l you roam

              
        When y

             
ou can't go ho

              
me (you can't 

             
go home), you 

            
can't go home 

              
(you can't go 


home)

             
        Oh, pi

             
lgrim, you can

      
't go home


INTERLUDE:

                                                          


                                                          
        

VERSE:

            
So spin the wh

            
eel of St. Col

             
umba’s and rid

             
e his golden c

                      
alf

             
Climb up the s

             
ilver strings 

            
of the mandoli

              
n till you can

             
 hear the ange

               
ls laugh

             
And if rock an

              
d roll is more

             
 your thing, g

o ahead and we

ar the badge

             
Cause chaos ne

              
eds another ki

            
ng, a pillar o

             
f smoke who do

      
n’t look back


CHORUS:
             
              

              
 Where're you 

            
gonna run 

             
          tell

              
 me, where wil

      
l you roam

              
        When y

             
ou can't go ho

              
me (you can't 

             
go home), you 

            
can't go home 

              
(you can't go 


home)

             
        Oh, pi

             
lgrim, you can

      
't go home


VERSE:

             
I’m dirty and 

            
torn, my tails

            
 hung out, a s

              
hip with tatte

           
red sails

             
Been down and 

            
out, around th

            
e horn to chas

              
e the great wh

           
ite whale

             
Across the nig

              
ht and across 

           
the day, I sav

e my song for 

eternity

             
Now here I fin

              
d you gazing o

            
ut of the wind

              
ow at St. Jame

     
s Infirmary


CHORUS:

             
              

              
 Where're you 

            
gonna run 

             
          tell

              
 me, where wil

      
l you roam

              
        When y

             
ou can't go ho

              
me (you can't 

             
go home), you 

            
can't go home 

              
(you can't go 


home)

             
        Oh, pi

             
lgrim, you can

      
't go home

              
        When y

             
ou can't go ho

              
me (you can't 

             
go home), you 

            
can't go home 

              
(you can't go 


home)

             
        Oh, pi

             
lgrim, you can

      
't go home


OUTRO:

             
  So keep roll

             
in', rollin' d

            
own that road 

            
that you’re on

             
     Keep roll

             
in', rollin', 

            
rollin' on (ro

   
llin' on), rol

lin' on (rolli

n' on) 

                                                  


                                         


                                                  


                                         


             
     Keep roll

             
in', rollin' d

            
own that road 

            
that you’re on

             
     Keep roll

             
in', rollin', 

                
rollin' on


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