From the recording SHADOW PEOPLE
For my dad, Anthony A. Zaleta (2/28/21 - 11/14/08)
Lyrics
GOING HOME<br />
(Anthony A. Zaleta 2/28/21 – 11/14/08)<br />
<br />
A brave young man went off to war<br />
Looking for liberty.<br />
He’ll find a wreath upon the door<br />
When he comes back from across the sea.<br />
<br />
His beloved dad passed away;<br />
He doesn’t know it yet.<br />
All young men grow old the day<br />
They face a father’s death.<br />
<br />
The circle’s never broken,<br />
And the cycle never ends.<br />
One more son is going home<br />
To see his father once again.<br />
<br />
The decades keep on rolling by,<br />
The gray hairs come and go.<br />
Father and son both always try<br />
To share the love they know.<br />
<br />
Then dad suffers a sudden stroke,<br />
And son drives through the night.<br />
This has to be some kind of joke<br />
They’ll laugh at in the daylight.<br />
<br />
The circle’s never broken,<br />
And the cycle never ends.<br />
One more son is going home<br />
To see his father once again.<br />
<br />
I’m going home to see my father,<br />
Driving through the night,<br />
Desperately searching for the magic words<br />
To make this turn out all right.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I make it there in time;<br />
There’s no wreath upon the door.<br />
And though my dad can’t see me,<br />
I pray he’ll hear my words.<br />
<br />
He’s lying there on his deathbed;<br />
The light is growing dim.<br />
In minutes my father’ll be dead,<br />
And so I say to him:<br />
<br />
The circle’s never broken,<br />
And the cycle never ends.<br />
One more son is going home<br />
To see his father once again.<br />
<br />
The circle’s never broken,<br />
And the cycle never ends.<br />
One more son is going home<br />
To see his father once again.<br />
<br />
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