the defector unreleased

Roy Orbison

Orbison/Dees/Angie Morrow

It s the Bonnie and Clyde days
Where the girls wear curls and lace
And the boys can t stand the pace of war

It s not the war but the cause the country s fighting for
The seed of discontent is sown
They re burning card back home, back home

The old folks just can t ignore
The posters with ink anymore
I m not sure what to think

Now I wonder why I m on this foreign shore
To find peace of mind
For now I walk alone
Amd it s no better to leave than stay
And give more than I had to give

My life was not my own the wife I ve never known
I may never know I may never go back home
To the land of the free, back home
To the land of the free back home
Would there be a place for me back home back home?

Well I always wonder why
Will they take me when I die back home