Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
His ashes mixed up with the mud
They help to grow the blood red rose
That struggles from his sod
Just another gone to God
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
When I was young I thought him God
His shoulders broad held up my world
He was all I hoped I could become
Just another come and gone
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
Across his stone-cleared land he’d stroll
Eyes lost in space, in vacant grace,
At peace with all he saw
A soldier settling from the war
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
As I grew I felt his bitter scorn
Some deep raw scar still scorched his heart
And those closest to him burned
He was a mystery we could not learn
Another old man gone
I saw him do my mother wrong
Not with the fist but with a rapier twist
His words cut her to the bone
He was a brute with heart of stone
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
He was so deaf and all alone
Until his own words were all he heard
His thoughts all he came to know
In his desert with no home
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
He never learned the words for love
And when I could finally read love in his deeds,
How closed I had become
I clenched tight and held my tongue
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
He lay, his skin stretched on his bones
And as he lay, so shrunk and grey,
It was too late to right our wrongs
And I saw that I’d cursed an effigy
That I was afraid I could become
I wept for him right there and then
And now I weep within this song
Just another old man gone
Another old man gone
Just another old man gone
He was no demon he was no god
And in the end when he could ascend
I prayed his peace was come
And prayed he’d found his God
Just another old man gone
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