home again

i've been away for much too long, i hope you still feel i belong, i didn't mean to cause you pain, nothin' to lose, much more to gain, so can you stand the rain?, just when i thought that we were through, i found my way right back to you, i can't change what happened in the past, and won't promise this time it would last, can you stand the rain?, so on the story goes, heaven only knows, the road of life will turn, a lesson we will learn, and no one knows but fate how we'll end, people who know, they say you can't go, `home again, but if you ask me, i'm happy to be home again, i stand here all alone confused, 'cause i like living with or without you, will our story end, like a fairy tail, or just another heartbreak, only time will tell, so on the story goes, heaven only knows, the road of life will turn, a lesson we will learn, and no one knows but fate how we'll end, people who know, they say you can't go, `home again, but if you ask me, i'm happy to be home again, no matter where, no matter how, no turning back, no stopping now, 'cause we may never ever pass this way again, just give me one more chance, let me come home again, so on the story goes, heaven only knows, the road of life will turn, a lesson we will learn, and no one knows but fate how we'll end, people who know, they say you can't go, `home again, but if you ask me, i'm happy to be home again, so now you kinda understand the story, right, me and the fellas trying to bring this back together, just like old times, ya'll know when it used to be ronnie, bobby, ricky, mike, ralph, johnny, take it back like that, so fellas, let's take this record home, and this time, let's stay there