Within a Mile of Home

Dust falls on the empty halls of my old school

Where the memories fade like the casualty a

forgotten fool

Now wide-eyed has become the blind

unspoken rule

Deeper only deep is now the word

The lesson's not the answer you once heard



[Chorus]

Don't turn your back on me

Don't ever let me down

She said I picked you up each time

Before you hit the ground

Your selfish face is now erased

When someone mentions you

And the darkness that you left

Has all but stepped aside

Will disappearing in clouds the sun arrives

Within a mile of home

Within a mile of home



Worry o' my worry has it been that long

The whistle keeps on blowin' but the tune's

long gone

His empty frame cannot explain there's

nothing left inside

So sing to me a song from yesterday

When laughter filled the tears that we

now make



(Chorus)



So sing to me, sing me a song, a song

from yesterday

And when the laughter turned drank these tears before

the promises that now slip away



Don't turn your back on me

Don't turn your back on me

Don't ever let me down



We are within a mile

We are within a mile

Within a mile of home,