Eliza Gilkyson - Once I Had a Home lyrics

Once I had a home I still have the key I take it everywhere I go To prove that all I've said is so And all the world can see The walls were painted blue The front door carved by hand And generations of my kin And strangers, all were welcomed in When they walked upon my land Pray for us all And the nameless, the fallen, The faceless forgotten Once I had a home Olive trees once grew Where mounds of rubble stand A man can feel himself a king When water flows from well and spring And peaceful is the land Pray for us all... The stars shine down on bone and skin On wire and walls that hold us in On roads that can't lead home again Pray for us all...