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Artist Iron & Wine
Album The Shepherd's Dog

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[00:36.29] Almost home
[00:37.53] And I miss the bottom stair
[00:41.28] You were braiding your grey hair
[00:45.35] And it's grown so long
[00:47.67] Since I've been gone
[00:53.20] Now the perfect girls
[00:54.83] By the pool they would protest
[00:57.69] With crosses 'round their necks
[01:02.59] But our sons were overseas
[01:03.72] And we all know about the hive and the honey bees
[01:26.09] Almost home
[01:26.53] With an olive branch and a dove
[01:31.70] You were beating on a persian rug
[01:34.18] With your Bible and your wedding band
[01:38.24] Both hidden on the TV stand
[01:40.87] And the cruel wind blew
[01:45.82] Every city father fell
[01:47.70] Off the county carousel
[01:51.83] While the dogs were eating snow
[01:54.33] All our sons had sunk in a trunk
[01:58.98] Of no one's clothes
[02:03.17] Almost home
[02:15.31] We got lost on our new street
[02:17.61] While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
[02:19.99] So the dogs all went unfed
[02:21.55] A great dream of bones all piled on a bed
[02:24.05] And the cops couldn't care
[02:25.12] When that crackhead built a boat
[02:26.30] And said please before I go
[02:27.49] May your only honor bought
[02:28.48] Be the kinship of the kids in the riot squad