[ Featuring Pete ]
Set out an empty chair
The place I used to sit
You put my name there
Like an epitaph
You think I don't care
So many years have passed
Without my face in
The family photograph
I had a near miss
It changed the way I think
Too many chances
A lifetime in a blink
I know I missed them
Last time they came around
I need to reconcile
Before I'm in the ground
The landmines and the cannonballs
The old grudge, and the war it caused
Might be time to put them all away
Another year I forgot to call
Hang the lights in the window
I'll be coming home today
I'll be coming home today
You offered money
I just needed a friend
Then you forgot me
Whatever your intent
No conversation
Cos I was too intense
Your blank expression
Killed my innocence
So every year I
Pulled my excuses out
And decorated
My lonely tree
And I pretended
My solitary life
Was open-ended
Instead of ending me
The landmines and the cannonballs
The old grudge, and the war it caused
Might be time to put them all away
Another year I forgot to call
Hang the lights in the window
I'll be coming home today
I'll be coming home today
I'll enter slowly
One stranger, coming through
Afraid you'll judge me
The way I'm judging you
I'll sit in corners
And glance around the room
You'll think I'm not enough
I think that may be true
But when I sneak in
Your smiles are warm and kind
I take the empty chair
And let the past unwind
We finally draw out
A map of our mistakes
Those many missteps
Won't be the path we take
The landmines and the cannonballs
The old wars, let's forget them all
We can hide the battle scars away
And this year I don't have to call
I see the lights in the window
There are no more words to say
I found my way home today
