[Verse 1]
Dark clouds are coming in like an army
Soon the sky will open up and disarm me
And you will go just like you've gone before
One sad soldier off to war
With enemies that only you can see

[Verse 2]
The dishes stacked, the table cleared
It's always like the scene of the last supper here
You speak so cryptically, but that's not news to me
The flood is here, it'll carry you
And I've got work to do

[Chorus]
Come on home
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your trouble

[Verse 3]
There is fire and there is lust
Some will trade it all for someone they could trust
There's a bag of silver for a box of nails
It's so simple the betrayal
Though it's known to change the world and what's to come
[Chorus]
Just come on home
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Don't you recognize them any more?
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your trouble

[Bridge]
There's the given and the expected
I count my blessings while I eye what I've neglected
Is this for better, is this for worse?
You're all jammed up and the dam's about to burst

[Verse 4]
I hear the owl in the night
I realize some things never are made right
By some will we string together here
Days to months and months to years
What if everything we have adds up to nothing?

[Chorus]
Home (Come home)
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your trouble
[Outro]
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for listening so well.