Traveling Through This Part Of You

Nanci Griffith · Winter Marquee [2002]

Nothing that I've ever seen

Now means much of anything

In traveling through this part of you

And the Vietnam that I had dreamed

The place you wore your life fatigued

I'm traveling through this part of you



Where are you amongst the madness

On the streets of Saigon?

Where were you in 1969

When I was but a youth?

Oh, here were you

You were traveling through this part of you



I'll make my way now on my own

Back to my home to live alone

Having traveled through this part of you

Yet, I will save this time and place

For the time when I can say

I've traveled truth this part of you



Where are you amongst the madness

On the streets of Saigon?

Where were you in 1969

When I was but a youth?

Oh, here were you

You were traveling through this part of you



You were an American boy

Whose innocence was lost here in the war

And I'll wear your scars

While traveling through this part of you



Nothing that I've ever seen

Now means much of anything

In traveling through this part of you

And the Vietnam that I had dreamed

The place you wore your life fatigued

I'm traveling through this part of you



I am traveling through this part of you

I am traveling through this part of you