The Big Parade — текст песни (Onelinedrawing)

I`ve just come back from the war.
I`m angry and tired and bored.
Scarred by the things that I saw --
Still don`t feel like I`m home.
Don`t want to go back, don`t want to stay.
I`m still waiting for the big parade.

Just before dawn --
doesn`t feel like last fall...
feels like a friend I`ve lost touch with
who I`d hoped wouldn`t call --
blankets and clothes and pictures of wives,
the glow of the burning
they saw from the sky...
When I woke up, all swaddled in white
I wanted my Mother
wanted her to tell me why I was alive

I`d write every night just before bed.
For a while there I stopped.
Did you think I was dead?
The truth of it is, I was afraid.
Scared to come back, I wanted to stay.
I`m still waiting for the big parade.