Traveler's Lantern

Dwight Yoakam · A Long Way Home [Reprise] [1998]

If deep in the night (if deep in the night)

You hear a voice calling

Lost and alone (lost and alone)

Barely able to speak



With each weary step (with each weary step)

Through cold shadows they stumble

Blindly along (blindly along)

Frail, hopeless and weak



Won't you set out a traveler's lantern

Just a small light that they might see

To guide them back home

Before they wander

Into the dark billows

That crash on the sea



At dawn's rise you may find (at dawn's rise you may find)

The footprints of angels

Brought to fellowship there (brought to fellowship there)

By your mercy lamp's flame



Walking beside (walking beside)

The weary soul life's forgotten

Bringing comfort and love (comfort and love)

And gently leading their way



Won't you set out a traveler's lantern

Just a small light that they might see

To guide them back home

Before they wander

Into the dark billows

That crash on the sea



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Won't you set out a traveler's lantern

Just a small light that they might see

To guide them back home

Before they wander

Into the dark billows

That crash on the sea...