The Ghosts Of Home Lyrics - Theories Of Flight - Fates Warning

Where I come from, no one's home 

Twisted branches overgrown 

Skin deep roots over broken bone 

Dust and glass and the ghosts of home 

Knock at the door, no one's home 

Empty rooms and shadows flown 

Down these halls fading memories roam 

Hand and hand with the ghosts of home 

Another new horizon 

Familiar scene of childhood dislocation 

Fingers traced the colored lines 

Another road, another destination 

You said goodbye to empty rooms 

And farewell to the walls and windows 

Waved to no one in particular 

As the lights went out and the doors behind you closed 

Home again, home again 

Stranger in a strange land 

You walk the halls nervous and unseen 

Keep your head down don't raise your hand 

Alone in the crowd, a ghost in the machine 

Home again, home again 

Half remembered neighborhoods 

Twisted branches in dying woods 

Broken bones and childhoods 

Broken homes in lost boyhoods 

Summer wars in the woods 

Fleeting blood brotherhoods 

Hoped to run but never stood 

Wished to stay but never could 

What did you hope to find 

Home again, what could you find? 

In doorways and window panes, in broken glass and faded frames 

Can clocks turn back, the years unwind 

Are you still hiding there now 

A ghost, trapped behind those walls? 

So goodbye again to empty rooms 

And farewell to walls and windows 

Print them once more in your memory 

As the lights recede and the road behind you grows 

Home again, home again