Josh Groban Brings Her `Home to Stay

I know you're gone
I watched you leave
I always thought
That it was me 

You made it clear
With that last kiss
You couldn't live a life
With maybes and what-ifs

When every boat
Has sailed away
And every path
Is marked and paved 

When every road
Has had its say
Then I'll be bringing you back
Home to stay

I have the cards you sent to me
You wrote of trains and Paris galleries
This spring you'll draw
Canals and frescoed walls
Look how far your dreaming's gone

When every town looks just the same
When every choice gets hard to make
When every road
Has had its say
Then I'll be bringing you back
Home to stay

And now I know why you had to go alone
Isn't there a place between

When every boat
Has sailed away
And every path
Is marked and paved

When every road
Has had its say
Then I'll be bringing you back
Home to stay

Reach out to me
Call out my name
And I would bring you back again
Today

Home to Stay, by Josh Groban

Sting's `The Last Ship and Michael Bay's `The Last Ship make me remember this bittersweet, poignant love song.  I had the CD, and, for a stretch of time while I was living in Dubai, I would listen to it repeatedly.  That line - Look how far your dreaming's gone - is full of pathos and irony: The dreaming is an artist's journey and destination at the same time, and she has come a long way in that regard, in the very process of going away from him.