Song of Sacrifice

Feel the clock beat on your back As you pack your bag You wonder if your sanity Is something you ever had And you wonder how the darkness Panting at your door Could drive a man to turn his back And run for other shores Pull your coat around your throat But you just can't fight them back The guns, the tears, the whistling fears As the future fades to black And the things you love begin to fade Though you try to hold on As you grip the sands with aging hands Til all that's left is gone When you can't go home No matter what you say Can't go home They've gone and took it all away Can't go home To taste the dirt is what I yearn For the ones who've gone, let's sing a song Never to return Think on friends and families And you wonder how they fared Torn apart forever By the things you'll never share Feel the sweat roll down your neck As you bend from the toil From white to blue, it's what you had to do For a grave on foreign soil Of the things we've lost and the things we've gained The losses fly off the scale But it's the things we've lost are what haunt us most The price of distant prison without bail When you can't go home No matter what you say Can't go home They've gone and took it all away Can't go home To taste the dirt is what I yearn For the ones who've gone, let's sing a song Never to return