Home From The Forest
(C) Oh the neon lights were flashing
And the (F) icy wind did (C) blow
The water (Em/B) seeped in(Am)to his (Am/G) shoes
And the (F) drizzle turned to (C) snow
His (F) eyes were red, his (C) hopes were dead
And the (Am) wine was running (E) low
And the (F) old man came (G) home from the (C) forest
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 the
bottle was his friend
And the old man stumbled in from the
forest
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
he ended up this way
Getting lost like a fool in the forest
And as
he lay there sleeping a vision did appear
Upon his mantle shining a face of
one so dear
Who had loved him in the springtime
of a long forgotten year
When the wildflowers did bloom in
the forest
She touched
his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name
And 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
With a
mighty roar the big jets soar above the canyon streets
And the con men con but life goes
on for the city never sleeps
And to an old forgotten soldier the
dawn will come no more
For the old man has come home from
the forest
