From the recording The Women All Were Dancing
Meaghan Blanchard has the beautiful country music voice but does a great job with this impressionistic pop groove.
Lyrics
Half a dozen roses lying scattered in the street
looks like someone turned and walked away
seems a shame to waste them, I’ll give them to the first one that I meet
do a good deed for this day
I’ll take the long way home
Making for the island, into the wind, into the waves
everybody bend their backs and row
the water’s freezing over, my friends are drunk and acting brave
singing out the songs that Jesus wrote
Let’s take the long way home
we’ll take the long way home
All around the island there are places
where you imagine you could hide
deserted beaches you can separate from time
and shift from shore to sea to sky
Sleeping in the shadows, I wake up when I hear my name
in the middle of the afternoon
a ribbon on a tree trunk, broken branches on a bush
looks like someone blazed me a trail
Must be the long way home
let’s take the long way home
we’ll take the long way home