Out And In And In And Out

Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs

They're begging barking bashing at their homes

Cold and wet and dirty like the earth

That mashes molding muddy marching boots

Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view

That foggy hazy drumming of that rain

Hear that outside? They're coming in

They're banging knocking shouting at the door

Fists are heavy pounds of pounding placed

Firm and steady rhythms that they pace

In and out and in and out we named

Everything and everyone we've known

Hear that outside? We lost our homes

Given up in loans and time we paid

Worth more to us than them, so we will end

Our lives with backs that strained to find

A pretty place and life to call our own

A place that we well never ever know

Hear that outside? We lost the war

How easy it is done if we never knew

It started back before I was born

All of us were other souls

We borrowed life and shared it with our own

And now we need to stretch and find our own

Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs

They're begging barking bashing at their homes

Cold and wet and dirty like the earth

That mashes molding muddy marching boots

Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view

That foggy hazy drumming of that rain

Hear that outside? It's changing airs

And bleeding out the colors of the world