Song Description
The speaker addresses a second person who has survived a childhood of domestic violence and an early adulthood of Vietnam violence and asks if he can break the cycle, not abuse his own wife.
| Song Length |
3:49 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Country - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed, Poignant |
Subject |
Dysfunctional Family, Change |
| Similar Artists |
Shawn Colvin, Paul Simon |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
back at your father's house
back at your father's house
did you see your life scrawled on the bedroom wall
did her cries bring your little boy feet down the hall
did you see his fist fly, see her slow-motion fall
back on the bedroom wall
back at your father's house
back on the bedroom wall
back at your father's house
back to your father's house
as you ran for your life in the lam dong hills
did you scream through the tracer-light counting the kills
do the nightmares that chase the sleeping pills
take you back through the lam dong hills
back to your father's house
back through the lam dong hills
back to your father's house
back at your father's house
when you come to the place where it all began
see yourself in her eyes as you raise your hand
do you think you can't stop it, know you can
leave it back where it all began
back at your father's house
back in the lam dong hills
back at your father's house
back on the bedroom wall
back at your father's house
back at your father's house