The Ash & Clay

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

And it might look like

God's away with all the trouble these days

We'll come home before the girls are grown

We're coming home tonight

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

Let's come home before the girls are grown

Let's come home to fight

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

Let's come home before the girls are grown

Let's come home tonight

Ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

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

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

Come on home before the girls are grown

Come on home tonight

Ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Come on home before the girls are grown

Come on home to fight