Message In the Bottle

He came home from the jungle so they thought, A brand new man, Left at 17 scared and alone, With no one to hold his hand. So he decided to tell us now What he couldn’t say back then. He had a plan. And he tells us now the only way he can. He left a message in the bottle. He left a message in the bottle For all the world to read And that message in the bottle, Only brought him pain and grief. And that message in the bottle Tells us about a broken man. And the loneliness he shares within the shadows, Of the things that might’ve been. Of how he could not throw the stone because, He’d seen the writing on the wall and in the the sand. So he takes another drink and thinks, About the girl he knew in school. About how he wrote her everyday from the bungle in the jungle. Like a lovesick fool. While his buddy dies in his arms, She sings Soldier boy I’ll be true to you. Neither one of them had a clue, About the message in the bottle. Or that the message in the bottle would leave that girl broken hearted, And bitter, And black and blue. When he came home, With the message of the bottle. He left a message in the bottle For all the world to read And that message in the bottle, Only brought him pain and grief. And I saw that man the other day, And for the first time In a long time he had, A look of peace. And the ex wife just turned away so sad. All his regrets, now with him in the grave. While their son still runs the streets. And I guess some day he’ll have to stop and read, The message in bottle. It’s all his father had to leave. He didn’t know quite how to face the pain. He came home but his soul always stayed, Behind the message in the bottle. He left a message in the bottle For all the world to read And that message in the bottle, Only ever brings, pain and grief. He found his message in the bottle. He lost his message in a bottle. He lost his message in the bottle. “It’s all inside your head the other girl said” I guess she’s never read, The message of the bottle.