Old Man

You tell me of a place where everybody knew their

Neighbors all the families helped each other and no one

Ever locked their doors you tell me no one locked their

Doors old man please stay a while I know at first I seemed

Too busy but now I'll make the time stay and tell me one

More story tell me about the time you ditched school to go

Fishing you thought the branch would hold your neighbor

Pulled you from the river he helped you wash your clothes

And stitch the hole in your trousers and your mom never

Knew why he giggled when he saw you a place where no

One locks their doors a place where no one locks their

Doors you tell me that you would show me only now it is too

Late I would like to build community only now it is too late

Things can never be the way they were before you can't go

Back to how things were before once the trust is gone

Once the trust is gone once the trust is gone you'll lock the

Door I can imagine that life but it seems so far from real it's

Just like a story that's the kind of life I've never known old

Man you're leaving now taking with you things I've never

Known I wonder where you're going and if it would be like

Your old home I hope you find the place you're looking for