Patriot

Whether forever, or never again
I see you gone
And now, I just want to be there with you
Forever…
How your eyes fell into mine
And we stirred to find the world alive
Like we couldn’t feel the decline…
Old railroad, take me away to that time
When men held something close
The place where we touched the flame
And burned slowly
Before it all went up in smoke
Smoke, stone, broken bones
A hard place we called a home

[Chorus]
I saw with my own eyes us unraveling
While others took to your side
Men of priviledge and class
They danced, they drank, they
Robbed the whole place blind
And drunk with Pride, you hurt, you stole
But I still carried you home
From the jungles, to the deserts, to the trenches’ reddened snow
So maybe Hell ain’t a place
It’s a time, a time, a time when things move on
Ain’t it a cryin’ shame, that after all this we lived to see it gone
Pieces in my hands
Try’n to put ‘em back
Just the way they were before
How we tamed earth and broke rock just to bring us close
20,000 miles of steel across the great unknown
But you can’t put a fallen leaf back on its tree…
Oh, say can’t you see
That they’ve taken you from me
All I wanted was to be there with you forever