Home Fires

Please keep the home fires burning

Please keep the kettle on the stove

Keep your hair the way your wore it, the day I left

Someday I might come home

Please keep the bed bare beside you

Please keep my shirts hanging in a row

Keep the kids from getting older, from growing up

Someday I might come home

Let me go where I please while you’re true

Let me take all the time while I hold it back from you

Let me run where I will while you’re always standing still

And then, take me home to you