Old Man's Back Again - Jono McCleery

I seen a hand

I seen a vision

It was reaching through the clouds

To risk a dream

A shadow across the sky

And it crushed into the ground

Just like a beast

The old man’s back again

The old man’s back again

I seen a woman

Standing in the snow

She was silent as she watched them

Take her man

Teardrops burned her cheeks

For she thought she’d heard the shadow

That left the land

The old man’s back again

The old man’s back again

The crowds they gathered

Their faces turned away

And they queue all day like dragons of disgust

Older women whispering

Wondering just what these young hot-heads

Want of us

An Andrey V., he cries

With eyes that ring like chimes

His anti-worlds go spinning

Through his head

He burns them in his dreams

For half awake they may as well be dead

The old man’s back again

The old mans back again

I see a soldier

Standing in the rain

For him there’s no old man

To walk behind

Devoured by his pain

Bewildered by the faces

Who pass him by

He’d like another name

The one he’s got’s a curse

These people cried

Why can’t they understand

His mother called him Ivan then she died

The old man’s back again

The old man’s back again