You Can Never Go Home - Paul Armfield

Spilled out from the nest
Of your feathery throne
From one summer's dream
To a winter unknown
Burning the bridges
That your heart trails behind
When you leave you
Can never go home
How do you sleep
When the pillow's alive
With the whispers of childhood
The buzz of the hive
When the lust dies to wander
When you're tired and alone
When you leave you
Can never go home
When the home-service
Beckons with crackles in code
Or the sound
Of your mother-tongue
Spilled on the road
When the angels
On motorbikes p
Ick up the slack
Like Orpheus son you
Must never look back
The faces you've known
Will be strange to the touch
The bricks of your dreams
Corroded to dust
The rust of your memories
Now polished to chrome
Well when you leave you
Can never go home
They say when you leave you
Can never go home
It's true when you leave you
Can never go home