Home from the Forest-Harlan Howard

[ti:Home from the Forest] [ar:Harlan Howard] [al:Down to Earth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.64]Home from the Forest - Harlan Howard [00:01.04]Written by：Gordon Lightfoot [00:01.49] [00:10.46]Oh the neon lights were flashing and the icy wind did blow [00:14.97] [00:16.82]The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow [00:20.95] [00:22.90]His eyes were red his hopes were dead and the wine was running low [00:27.07] [00:28.65]And the old man came home from the forest [00:35.03] [00:36.23]His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled to the street [00:40.32] [00:42.22]A dozen faces stopped to stare but no one stopped to speak [00:46.51] [00:47.97]For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend [00:52.46] [00:53.97]And the old man stumbled in from the forest [01:00.17] [01:08.74]Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way [01:12.97] [01:14.73]His ragged coat around him as upon his cot he lay [01:19.03] [01:20.82]And he wondered how it happened that he'd ended up this way [01:25.26] [01:26.72]Getting lost like a fool in the forest [01:33.05] [01:34.16]And as he lay there sleeping a vision did appear [01:38.43] [01:40.23]Upon his mantle shining the face of one so dear [01:44.58] [01:46.29]Who'd loved him in the springtime of a long forgotten year [01:50.66] [01:52.29]When the wildflowers did bloom in the forest [01:58.49] [02:07.33]She touched his grizzled fingers as she called him by his name [02:11.64] [02:13.31]And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games [02:18.02] [02:19.48]In an old house on a hillside in some forgotten town [02:23.85] [02:25.36]Where the river runs down from the forest [02:31.82] [02:32.94]With a mighty roar the big jet soars above the canyon streets [02:37.35] [02:38.96]And the con men con but life goes on for the city never sleeps [02:43.70] [02:44.57]But to an old forgotten soldier the dawn will come no more [02:49.53] [02:52.49]For the old man has come home from the forest