Old Man's Back Again

I seen a hand

I seen a vision

It was reaching through the clouds

To risk a dream

A shadow crossed the sky

And it crushed into the ground

Just like a beast

The old man's back again

The old man's back again

I seen a woman

Standing in the snow

She was silent as she watched them

Take her man

Teardrops burned her cheeks

For she thought she'd heard the shadow

Had left the land

The old man's back again

The old man's back again

The crowds they gathered

The faces turned away

And they queue all day like dragons

Of disgust

All the women whispering

Wondering just what these young hot heads want of us

And entres vie, he cries

With eyes that ring like chimes

His anti-worlds go spinning

Through his head

It burns them in his dreams

For half awake, they may as well be dead

The old man's back again

The old man's back again

I see a solider

Standing in the rain

For him there's no old man

To walk behind

Devoured by his pain

Bewildered by the faces

Pass him by

He'd like another name

The one he's got's a curse

These people cried

Why they can't understand

His mother called him Ivan

Then she died

The old man's back again

The old man's back again

The old man's back again

The old man's back again

I can see he's back again

I can see he's back again

I can see he's back again

I can see he's back again