Song Description

This is a song about a soldier's wife who's waiting for her husband, away on duty. It's a reflective song on the effects of the loved ones who are left behind in war.

Lyrics

Jimmy Two Times

Little Jimmy in the prime of his life,
got the world in the palm of his hands.
To make it big or to make it out,
another grain on a mountain of sand.
Singing on the coastal lanes,
She wants him back in the calm of her heart,
to bring him back, to bring him home
to the start of it all.

Jimmy's heading to the end of the earth
with the sweat on his palms and the weight on his back,
playing back the dreams of the boy
that had led to the choices he made as a man.
Signed him up, and sent him out -
no hint or trace of the doubt that'd
tear her up and cut her out
as she watched him walk away and she said,
I want the boy who left me,
not the man who's coming back
I want the boy who left me.

Jimmy waits in the heat of it all
with the dry in his throat and the sun in his eyes,
playing back the dreams of the boy
when he hid in the reeds in the cool of the night.
Now he's moving out tracking back,
and each one of the dreams that he had as he
ties them up and leads them out,
and his mind falls back again to when she said
I want the boy who left me,
not the man who's coming back
I want the boy who left me.

Dumbing down for the work at the tills,
but she can't get his taste off her finger-tips.