5,000 miles is a lot to eat.
But I've got stomach and I've got teeth.
Oh I'm not a god oh I'm not a genius.
But I'll figure out how to drink the ocean between us.

5,000 miles is a lot to run
but I'll force my legs and fight my lungs.
I'm 15, a machine, I'll make it through.
I'm a stranger to your body, but I already love you.

Babe I'm coming back, just you wait.
I'm running a little late
But in 5 years I'll be at your doorstep, I know.
I know, I know I'm late but I'm home.

I'm coming back, just so you know.
I'm sorry love, it's taking slow.
But in 5 years I'll be at your doorstep, I know.
I know I know I'm late but I'm home.

Oh god what a brutal scene.
Falling in love on a screen.
I abused a pen, fake memories we drew.
Piles of plans waiting to come true.

But we know now those are things we'll never do.
Cause I've moved on and so have you.
But I'm in your city on tour 5 years late.
And I'm only 15 minutes away.

Babe I'm coming back, just you wait.
I'm running a little late
But in 5 years I'll be at your doorstep, I know.
I know, I know I'm late but I'm home.

But I won't knock, I won't go to your door.
Cause my love, I don't know you anymore.
But I did what I promised, I did what I swore.
And soldier, I brought my body to your door.

So I drove by your house 5 years late.
I saw your dad pulling in the gate.
I'm sorry my love, I just couldn't leave it.
The little kid in me just had to see it.

Stared in silence watching the fake memories play.
I saw me running, calling your name.
And I burst in that hug with all that we are.
Crying in the memory and crying in the car.

The kid who loved you is screaming no.
Cause I won't let her go say hello.
Yeah I turn my car around, not giving response.
Cause I'm driving from all that she wants.

I talk to the kid in the backseat.
Baby I saw his house, I saw the street.
And it's not fair, I was there through the glass.

Oh soldier I am home.
But soon I'm gonna have to go.
Hope you have everything we couldn't.
Hope time gave you what for us it wouldn't.

I'm out in the air, unseen.
Surrounded by evergreen.
All I wanted so brutally
Is in front of me ruthlessly.

Like a childhood idol.
Never met, but I know it.
It changes regardless.
and time is heartless.

Late that night I played your home state.
I sing songs that are baked with your name.
I'm on stage next door, I'm just passing through.
Telling strangers all about you.

Babe I'm coming back, just you wait.
I'm running a little late.
Yeah in 5 years I was at your doorstep, I know
I know I know I'm letting you go.

Goodbye evergreen soldier dew.
All the strangers are singing about you.