omaha you ve been weighin heavy on my mind guess i never really left at all i m turnin all those roads i walked around the other way i m comin back to you omaha omaha nebraska wasn t good enough for me i always thought i was the roamin kind with a pocket full of dreams and my one shirt on my back i left there looking for some things to find rode my thumb to san francisco i worked down by the bay i got some schoolin paid for by the law and the hardest thing i learned there was there ain t no easy way to get ahead behind those county walls so it s so long california reckon i ll be movin on i m leavin even if i have to crawl i ve got some loose ends layin round that i left undone waitin there for me in omaha omaha you ve been weighin heavy on my mind i guess i never really left at all i m turnin all those roads i walked around the other way i m coming back to you omaha