(Marshall Crenshaw - Glen Burtnik) 

    

  There and back again 

Didn't know what I was walkin' into 

But when the feeling hit, to follow it, 

was all that I could do 

Now that I've thought it through 

Here alone at the journey's end 

I'd gladly go again, take it from one who's been 

There and back again 

She was wild and I was restless 

And our love was true 

We were young and time was endless 

Everything was new 

Driving fast and running breathless 

(It) blew my heart away 

When I first saw her face 

On that long, long gone day 

There and back again 

Goin' where we didn't dare before 

Too much wasn't enough of each other's love 

Oh that's for sure 

I was just waitin' around 

Killing time with all my dead beat friends 

That's what I did back then 

That was before I'd been 

There and back again 

She said we should find a highway 

Any one would do 

And we did not, say goodbye to 

Anyone we knew 

Hotels and auto graveyards 

Under the bright blue sky 

On the move, all the time 

The midday sun 

Made us high 

There and back again 

Goin' where we didn't dare before 

Too much wasn't enough of each other's love 

Yeah that's for sure 

I was just waitin' around 

Killing time with all my dead beat friends 

That's what I did back then 

That was before I'd been 

There and back again 

It lasted 'till it ended 

That's how it goes 

Sometimes things are just over 

Everybody knows 

Time has made us into strangers 

She's lost to me now 

But now and then when lights are low 

She comes to mind, and I go 

There and back again 

Didn't know what I was walkin' into 

But when the feeling hit, to follow it, 

was all that I could do 

Now that I've thought it through 

Here alone at the journey's end 

I'd gladly go again, take it from one who's been 

There and back again 

There and back again...