We all move in circles from the day that we begin
We wait around til we run aground before it all comes back again
He was a husband and a father just the same
But when his country went to war he knew they'd draw his name
He told them he was crazy but they would not let him be
They sent him off as a wandering hero lost in an unknown sea
He was fightin until nightfall, waitin for the day
that peace would come back and he could get back home again
Washed upon a new land, feelin like an old man
He wasn't gettin any younger, he wants to get back home again
Twenty years is a long time when you wanna be some place else
Old times always stay the same and brand new days are strange
But you never lose yourself and all you do is change
All our days are short next to the rings around a tree