The Ash & Clay

The Ash & Clay - The Milk Carton Kids

The swing sets are empty

like dirt turned the dark of the night

The center of this town

it used to whirl in the glow of twilight

It might look like god's away with all the trouble these days

We'll come home before the girls are grown

We're coming home tonight

What oh have we done to run this country into such a sight

Stolen from our brothers like we couldn't find a fair enough fight

You wait on promise you will say

Won't forsake the ash and clay

Let's come home before the girls are grown

Let's come home to fight

I know we want whats best for us

I know it has to come at a price

I also know the trouble that you find when you stop being nice

You look around you one day

What you once knew didn't stay

Let's come home before the girls are grown

Let's come home tonight

Have you ever asked a man

to take your place at the head of the table

You could shed away your shame if in the end

You found you simply weren't able

You might find out you could stay

On the ash and on the clay

Come on home before the girls are grown

Come on home tonight

Come on home before the girls are grown

Come on home to fight