The Big Parade Lyrics - 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 just scared. 

Scared to come back, I wanted to stay. 

I'm still waiting for the big parade.