The Ash & Clay

[Verse 1]

The swing sets are empty like dirt turned the dark of the night

The center of this town it used to whirl in the glow of twilight

It might look like God's away with all the trouble these days

[Chorus]

We'll come home before the girls are grown

We're coming home tonight

[Verse 2]

What, oh, have we done to run this country into such a sight?

Stolen from our brothers like we couldn't find a fair enough fight

You wait on promise, you will say

Won't forsake the ash and clay

[Chorus]

Let's come home before the girls are grown

Let's come home to fight

[Verse 3]

I know we want what's best for us, I know it has to come at a price

I also know the trouble that you find when you stop being nice

You look around you, one day

What you once knew didn't stay

[Chorus]

Let's come home before the girls are grown

Let's come home tonight

Oooh, ooh-ooh

Oooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

[Verse 4]

Have you ever asked a man to take your place at the head of the table?

You could shed away your shame if in the end you found you simply weren't able

You might find out you could stay on the ash and on the clay

[Chorus]

Come on home before the girls are grown

Come on home tonight

Oooh, ooh-ooh

Oooh, ooh-ooh, ooh

Come on home before the girls are grown

Come on home to fight