[ti:Home From The Forest] [ar:Gordon Lightfoot] [al:United Artists Collection, The] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Home From The Forest - Gordon Lightfoot [00:07.57]Oh the neon lights were flashin' [00:09.36]And the icy wind did blow [00:13.58]The water seeped into his shoes [00:15.77]And the drizzle turned to snow [00:19.63]His eyes were red his hopes were dead [00:21.97]And the wine was runnin' low [00:25.34]And the old man came home [00:30.10]From the forest [00:33.94]His tears fell on the sidewalk [00:36.07]As he stumbled in the street [00:40.11]A dozen faces stopped to stare [00:42.09]But no one stopped to speak [00:45.83]For his castle was a hallway [00:48.09]And the bottle was his friend [00:51.84]And the old man stumbled in [00:56.66]From the forest [01:00.60]Up a dark and dingy staircase [01:03.11]The old man made his way [01:06.72]His ragged coat around him [01:08.71]As upon his cot he lay [01:12.79]And he wondered how it happened [01:14.58]That he ended up this way [01:18.48]Getting lost like a fool [01:23.42]In the forest [01:27.39]And as he lay there sleeping [01:29.99]A vision did appear [01:33.40]Upon his mantle shining [01:35.67]A face of one so dear [01:39.53]Who had loved him in the springtime [01:41.47]Of a long forgotten year [01:45.22]When the wildflowers did bloom [01:49.92]In the forest [01:53.92]She touched his grizzled fingers [01:56.16]And she called him by his name [02:00.17]And then he heard the joyful sound [02:02.76]Of children at their games [02:06.22]In an old house on a hillside [02:08.66]In some forgotten town [02:12.19]Where the river runs down [02:17.11]From the forest [02:28.36]With a mighty roar the big jets soar [02:30.89]Above the canyon streets [02:34.24]And the con men con but life goes on [02:36.79]For the city never sleeps [02:40.05]And to an old forgotten soldier [02:43.01]The dawn will come no more [02:47.51]For the old man has come home [02:53.90]From the forest