Left Behind

You fold his hands and smooth his tie you gently lift his chin

Were you really so blind and unkind to him

Can't help the itch to touch to kiss to hold him once again

Now to close his eyes--never open them

A shadow passed a shadow passed yearning yearning

For the fool it called a home

All things he never did are left behind

All the things his mama wished he'd bear in mind

And all his dad had hoped he'd know

The talks you never had the saturdays you never spent

All the 'grown-up' places you never went

And all of the crying you wouldn't understand

You just let him cry 'make a man out of him '

A shadow passed a shadow passed yearning yearning

For a fool it called a home

All things he ever wished are left behind

All the things his mama did to make him mind

And how his dad had hoped he'd grow

All things he ever lived are left behind

All the fears that ever flickered through his mind

All the sadness that he'd come to own 175519,-78)

A shadow passed a shadow passed yearning yearning

For the fool it called a home

And it whistles through the ghosts still left behind

It whistles through the ghosts still left behind

Whistles through the ghosts still left behind