Go Home

(Hurry, hurry, hurry)

(Hurry, hurry, hurry) When I see you

You are as firm as winter soil

But warm (hurry, hurry, hurry)

You are real

You are the world that greeted me

When I was born

You built our home

And all that I all owe this life was built into its frame

Up from the loam

But to the dust returned before my debt was paid

And how are you gone?

Didn't the world turn on the arbor of our home?

Weren't you holding up the sky with limbs of stone?

How are you gone?

When I left you

I was a penny tossed onto an iron rail

There wasn't anywhere

But a busted casket

And a bed of nails

And how are you gone?

Didn't the world turn on the axel of our home?

Didn't your laughter stoke the fire that kept us moving on?

How are you gone?

Was it as simple as a jealous man?

Was it as facile as the raising of his hand?

Was it so easy

To utter a command

And loose the toothless lion

On the noble lamb?

Why didn't the earth embrace them where they fell?

Why didn't the storm ring out their final dying knell?

Why didn't the whole of nature come collapsing down

To bury that goddamn bastard

In the deepest hell?

And what do you do?

When the people that you love

Are torn from you

And there's nothing you can do

There's nothing you can do

There's nothing you can do

(Go home) No, it's not as easy as it sounds

(Go home) There is a lion in your house

(Go home)

If you can't get in the door

Then bar the windows

Burn it down and listen to the roar (go home)

Now there's no home to go back to (go home)

While she's waiting there for you (go home)

With a knife in your hand

There's nothing you won't do

There's nothing you won't do

There's nothing you can do

That she won't understand

There's nothing you can do (there's nothing you can do)

There's nothing you can do (there's nothing you can do)

There's nothing you can do (there's nothing you can do)