Triumphant Return -

How dare you come back here

And tell me that all this is yours

When you tired of your life and your child

And you sailed for new shores

You were always trouble, I knew it before

Now, almost a stranger, you’re smiling and back at my door

Where in your head

Lives the strange and self-serving delusion

That I’m helpless

And pining away in my seclusion?

I’ve raised a good son with a house full of friends

And your dog is the only one happy to see you again

So go tell the story your way

To the boys at the tavern

Go invent a triumphant return

Go play the man who put me in my place

I suspect you’ll leave out that I laughed in your face

Go invent a triumphant return

Go invent a triumphant return

While you were out stealing

I earned a good name in this town

I tore it all down, I levelled this ground and I built

And the roots of my home are fully my own

You’re wrong if you think that I owe you or feel any guilt

These lines on my face are from caring for what you abandoned

Defending what’s mine from the jackals that laugh in the rocks

Those scars on your skin are your own from your reckless adventures

They don’t give you the right to berate me for changing the locks

So go tell the story your way

To the boys at the tavern

Go invent a triumphant return

Go play the man who put me in my place

I suspect you’ll leave out that I laughed in your face

Go invent a triumphant return

Go invent a triumphant return

Go tell the story your way: a triumphant return