Home From the Forest

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Oh, the neon lights were flashin' And the icy winds did blow Water seeped into his shoes And the drizzle turned to snow His eyes were red, his hopes were dead And the wine was runnin' low And the old man came home From the forest [Verse 2] His tears fell on the sidewalk As he stumbled in the street A dozen faces stopped to stare But no one stopped to speak For his castle was a hallway And thе bottle his only friend And the old man stumblеd in From the forest [Verse 3] Up a dark and dingy staircase The old man made his way His ragged coat around him As upon his cot he lay And he wondered how it happened That it all turned out this way Gettin' lost like a fool In the forest [Verse 4] And as he lay there sleepin' A vision did appear Upon his mantle shinin' The face of one so dear Who loved him in the springtime Of a long-forgotten year When the wildflowers did bloom In the forest [Verse 5] Oh, she touched his grizzled fingers And she called him by his name Then he heard the joyful sound Of children at their games In an old house on a hillside In some forgotten town Where the river runs down From the forest [Verse 6] With a mighty roar them big jets soar Above the canyon streets The con men con but life goes on Before the city sleeps For an old forgotten soldier The dawn will come no more For the old man has come home From the forest