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 When Kevin Comes Marching Home Copyright 2005 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
When Kevin comes marching home again I doubt that they'll have a parade just some friends and some relatives down at the airport meeting him by baggage claim he'll smile politely and kiss all the cheeks but he won't look at you in the face as he hugs you briefly, then heads for his car and peels his old stickers off right away. You'll put on a brave face and get in the front seat drive off and leave me alone I know that I won't see you much anymore when Kevin comes marching home When Kevin comes marching home again hurrah, hurrah and all that He won't grow his hair back, and he'll smoke like a fiend and he won't ever show up to class we'll wonder if he died and sent back a ghost to fill in his place over here and once it finds out that it's not fooling anyone it'll fade til it just disappears Well, I can't quite be certain, but he sure sounded different when I last talked to him on the phone We can safely assume that things won't be the same when Kevin comes marching home What if spends all his time in the basement "exercising his arm?" and thinking of moving to south Indiana to work on his great uncle's farm? Or handing out pamphlets down by the park that ramble and don't make much sense? Or selling those copies of his god-awful poems for two bucks and ninety-nine cents? taking the drugs that he swore off before and constantly asking for loans? I'm only saying that you know it might happen when Kevin comes marching home Don't get me wrong, when Kevin comes back man, I hope to God he's okay But he just looks like hell in those pictures he sent though he already did, anyway Have you seen that one where he's in his green jacket standing by some sort of gate? All I can say is that I've never seen him with that kind of look on his face. Of course I'm still hoping that it's all in my head and I think maybe I should just go Cause it'll only be harder (for me, anyway) when Kevin comes marching home. June 2005
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