I seen a hand, I seen a vision
It was reaching through the clouds to risk a dream
A shadow crossed the sky
And it crushed into the ground just like a beast
The old man's back again
The old man's back again
I seen a woman standing in the snow
She was silent as she watched them take her man
Teardrops burned her cheeks
For she thought she'd heard the shadow had left the land
The old man's back again
The old man's back again
The crowds, they gather, their faces turned away
They queue all day like dragons, oft-disguised
All the women whispering
Wondering just what these young hot-heads want of us
And entrez-vous, he cries with eyes that ring like chimes
His empty words go spinning through his head
It burns them in his dreams
For half-awake they may as well be dead
The old man's back again
The old man's back again
I see a soldier standing in the rain
For him, there's no old man to walk behind
Devoured by his pain
Bewildered by the faces who pass him by
He'd like another name
The one he's got's a curse, these people cried
Why they can't understand
His mother called him Ivan, then she died
The old man's back again (I can see he's back again)
The old man's back again (I can see he's back again)
The old man's back again (I can see he's back again)
The old man's back again (I can see he's back again)
Ooh (I can see he's back again)
(I can see he's back again)
