Campaign Clothes, Dreams of Home

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

The saddle still shone the day I left

The villagers pack my travel bag full of hopes

I thought the place the banners pointed toward

One day there will be a place for the light of youth

[Pre-Chorus]

Later I came to understand the horn in the deep of night

Every cry calls out for someone’s mother and father

[Chorus]

Beyond the army banners I have another name

Called out before a doorway where cooking smoke rises

If glory hides the road home

I would first take those hands and lead them home

Beyond the battle flag there is still a heart

What I hope for is someone's safe return

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 2]

Twenty years of wind have weathered the saddle

By the well back home, no cooking smoke rises anymore

The victory songs on the high terrace drift farther away

Yet I remember the faces of those who never returned

[Pre-Chorus]

Later I came to understand the horn in the deep of night

Every cry calls out for someone’s mother and father

[Chorus]

Beyond the army banners I have another name

Called out before a doorway where cooking smoke rises

If glory hides the road home

I would first take those hands and lead them home

Beyond the battle flag there is still a heart

What I hope for is someone's safe return

[Bridge]

Unwilling to count silence as an answer too

Unwilling to let medals bend my spine

May every child who has walked through windblown sand

Can see their hometown when they wake from dreams

[Final Chorus]

Beyond the army banners I have another name

Called out before a doorway where cooking smoke rises

If glory hides the road home

I would first take those hands and lead them home

Beyond the battle flag there is still a heart

What I hope for is someone's safe return

[Outro]

I gently put the old blade back at the bottom of the chest

Giving my name back to the self I used to be