In My Own Backyard

I thought that life was running off, leaving me behind So like a fool I jumped the fence Just to see what I could find But love kept disappearing Like children chasing fireflies in the dark And to think that I once had it all in my own backyard You’d never know it now but I used to have it all A swing set and a plastic pool A shaggy dog that lived to fetch a ball An angel with a gla*s of tea Laughing at the kids and me all soaking wet From washing that old car And to think that I once had it all in my own backyard That bare spot’s grown over where third base used to be And the weeds have choked out all the flowers But they can’t kill the memory Lord, I’d love to run back home But there’s no one there for me And that gra*s I used to hate to mow, sure is looking green You’d never know it now but I used to have it all A swing set and a plastic pool A shaggy dog that lived to fetch a ball An angel with a gla*s of tea laughing at the kids and me All soaking wet from washing that old car And to think that I once had it all in my own backyard Whoa, you’d never know it now but I used to have it all Once I had everything… in my own backyard