Everybody Wants Home

We flew you to a town of Roses, parks, animal boats You were happy, we were restless We left that bright, sweet place You didn't understand It was too strange to say goodbye To say goodbye It's two years since we left that town Our eyes sad with what we've learned Somehow lonely, shrinking, pacing Groping for an exit Dreaming of flying away I wonder if it is from me You dream of flying Oh, children Everybody wants home I don't know when We will find our own But I've seen and felt it inside I've seen our faces alight The search for home is a journey To what we love Your face lit up when I agreed to Walk with you at your old school grounds Almost forgotten, painted play space The food drop, the praying room Tall trees whisper softly They shelter children walking in Walking in each day You asked, can't we please go in and Say hello to everyone I just stammered, snapped a picture Rushed you back to the car It was all gone again I wish I could have given you What you truly came for Oh, children Everybody wants home I don't know when We will find our own But I've seen and felt it inside I've seen our faces alight The search for home is a journey To what we love Oh, children Everybody wants home This holy land holds us as its own I saw and felt it inside And here we are now I won't give up I'm hoping in the Almighty Found my smile