Returning Home

I saw the ruins once the smoke cleared

(Once upon returning home)

A touch of sadness but no fear

(Once upon returning home)

I don't know what I cried about but

Reality removed all doubt

I felt warm but all alone

(Once upon returning home) Returning home

Once this place was paradise

Green and blue, the colors of the sea

It's still alive, so it shall return

Eventually (Oh, oh, oh)

The sacred builders, the chosen ones

Have learned to live and let live

Once you take, what's there to share?

You've got to give, you've got to give

Oh, don't let the changes get you down

You'll see this world turned upside down

If you listen, you'll hear the word

When it comes around, when it comes around, yeah

I saw the ruins once the smoke cleared

(Once upon returning home)

A touch of sadness but no fear

(Once upon returning home) Yeah

I don't know what I cried about but

Reality removed all doubt

I felt warm but all alone

(Once upon returning home)

Look around, there's work to do

A new life for the chosen few

The world sings in the same key, sweet harmony

(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

Just when you thought you had it made

With fool's gold, the road was paved

Its circles get so big and wide

You can't see to the other side, other side

Oh, the long journey wore me down

To see the world turn upside down

There'll be some time before things

Settle down

I saw the ruins once the smoke cleared

(Once upon returning home)

A touch of sadness but no fear

(Once upon returning home)

Yeah, still I, I don't know what I cried about but

Reality removed all doubt

I felt warm but all alone

(Once upon returning home) Returning home, yeah

Oh, don't let the changes get you down, no

You'll see the world turned upside down

If you listen, you'll hear the word

When it comes around, when it comes around

I saw the ruins once the smoke cleared

(Once upon returning home)

A touch of sadness but no fear

(Once upon returning home)

I don't know what I cried about but

Reality removed all doubt

I felt warm but all alone

(Once upon returning home)

Returning home, yeah, whoo

Oh yeah

(Coming home) I saw the ruins, oh

(Coming home) I saw the smoke clear

(Coming home) I felt the world turn upside down

(Coming home)

Oh, I'm (Coming home) oh

(Coming home)

(Coming home)

(Coming home)

Mama, I'm (coming home)

Mama, I'm (coming home)

Oh, returning home (coming home) yeah, ow

(Coming home) ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow

(Coming home)

Oh, oh, oh (coming home)

(Coming home)