nanci griffith - traveling through this part of you lyrics

(nanci griffith)
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

[chorus:]
where are you amongst this 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
i have traveled through this part of you
yet, i will save this time and place
for the time when i can say
i traveled truth this part of you

[chorus]

you were an american boy
whose innocence was lost here in the war
and i 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'm traveling through... this part of you...
i'm traveling through... this part of you...