Old Man's Back Again

I seen a hand
I seen a vision
It was reaching through the clouds
To risk a dream
A shadow across the sky
And it crushed into the ground
Just like a beast
The old man’s back again
The old man’s back again
I seen a woman
Standing in the snow
She was silent as she watched them
Take her man
Teardrops burned her cheeks
For she thought she’d heard the shadow
That left the land
The old man’s back again
The old man’s back again
The crowds they gathered
Their faces turned away
And they queue all day like dragons of disgust
Older women whispering
Wondering just what these young hot-heads
Want of us
An Andrey V., he cries
With eyes that ring like chimes
His anti-worlds go spinning
Through his head
He burns them in his dreams
For half awake they may as well be dead
The old man’s back again
The old mans back again
I see a soldier
Standing in the rain
For him there’s no old man
To walk behind
Devoured by his pain
Bewildered by the faces
Who pass him by
He’d like another name
The one he’s got’s a curse
These people cried
Why can’t they understand
His mother called him Ivan then she died
The old man’s back again
The old man’s back again