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[INTRO:] G C
VERSE 1:
Oh, the neon lights were flashing and the icy wind did blow
The water seeped into his shoes and the drizzle turned to snow
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead and the wine was running low
And the old man came home
From the forest
VERSE 2:
His tears fell on the sidewalk as he stumbled in the street
A dozen faces stopped to stare, but no one stopped to speak
For his castle was a hallway and the bottle was his friend
And the old man stumbled in
From the forest
VERSE 3:
Up a dark and dingy staircase the old man made his way
His ragged coat around him, as upon his cot he lay
And he wondered how it happened that he ended up this way
Getting lost like a fool
In the forest
VERSE 4:
And as he lay there sleeping a vision did appear
Upon his mantle shining, a face of one so dear
Who had loved him in the springtime of a long forgotten year
When the wildflowers did bloom
In the forest
VERSE 5:
She touched his grizzled fingers and she called him by his name
And then he heard the joyful sound of children at their games
In an old house on a hillside, in some forgotten town
Where the river runs down
From the forest
VERSE 6:
With a mighty roar the big jet soars above the canyon streets
And the con men con, but life goes on, for the city never sleeps
And to an old forgotten soldier, the dawn will come no more
N.C. F G
For the old man has come home
From the forest
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