My Youngest Son Came Home Today
Homecoming Echoes: A Poignant Tale of Loss and Legacy
Lyrics
My youngest son came home today
Reflecting on the return of the speaker's youngest son.
His friends marched with him all the way
Describing a procession of friends accompanying the son.
The fife and drum beat out the time
Highlighting the musical accompaniment of fife and drum.
While in his box of polished pine
Referring to the son's coffin made of polished pine.
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
Comparing the son to dead meat on a butcher's tray, emphasizing his lifeless state.
My youngest son same home today
Reiterating the return of the youngest son.
My youngest son was a fine young man
Portraying the son as a respectable individual with a family.
With a wife, a daughter and two sons
Detailing the son's family, including wife and children.
And a man he would have lived and died
Expressing the son's commitment to life, possibly in a patriotic or principled sense.
Till by a bullet sanctified
Describing the son's death, sanctified by a bullet.
Now he's a saint or so they say
Suggesting that the son is now considered a saint by others.
They brought their young saint home today
Announcing the return of the son in a saintly context.
An Irish sky looks down and weeps
Setting the scene in Ireland with a somber tone.
Upon the narrow Belfast streets
Depicting a mournful atmosphere in Belfast.
At children's blood in gutters spilled
Referring to the tragic loss of children's lives in the streets.
In dreams of glory unfulfilled
Mentioning unfulfilled dreams of glory as a consequence of the conflict.
As part of freedom's price to pay
Connecting the son's return to the broader theme of the cost of freedom.
My youngest son came home today
Repeating the return of the youngest son in the context of paying the price for freedom.
My youngest son came home today
Reiterating the return of the son with his friends.
His friends marched with him all the way
Describing the musical accompaniment of pipe and drum during the return.
The pipe and drum beat out the time
Referencing the son's coffin once again.
While in his box of polished pine
Recalling the son's lifeless state using vivid imagery.
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
Reiterating the comparison of the son to dead meat, emphasizing the impact of his death.
My youngest son came home today
Repeating the return of the youngest son, with a hint that this time he won't leave.
And this time he's here to stay
Concluding that the son is now permanently home.
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