Johnny Red Video (MV)

Old Johnny Red, he greeted each day with the past in his throat
And a kiss from her plain red lips
He loved her so
She could calm his mind like the storm riddled chimes
When the memories of ghosts and visions of prisons
Just wouldn't stay behind
He'd leave her each day knowing that she'd be home
When the work let up and the day was done
35 years had surely taken it's toll
But the past was as clear as day
He was counting on her love to keep that old war at bay
See Old Johnny Red he lost all his friends in the tallest of grass
With the sargeants all screaming Hey man, whatch your ass
He was fighting a war on some foreign shore
But their bellies were tight, and the nights were as calm
As a long black vail
He was drafted a while but he knew she'd be home
When the fighting let up and the killing was done
All this Hooah'd surely taken it's toll
But her face was as clear as day
He was counting on her love, to keep this whole war at bay
Cause' firing guns at fathers and sons
Was always too much to take
And the love of a woman
Was sometimes the only
Thing to keep a man sane
Oh how he loved her so
She showed him how to let go
Of all the things time brings
She was his everything
Old Johnny Red, he come home late
To some red and blue lights
They flickered and painted his house
It was quiet as a mouse
Oh there she lie looking peaceful as the pie
She had made on this day for their love
It would have been 45
He could not accept that she wouldn't be home
His knees hit the floor and his breath was all gone
45 years of love cut short
So he followed her into the clear
He was counting on her love to meet him on the other side I hear
Cause' firing guns at fathers and sons
Was always too much to take
And the love of a woman
Was sometimes the only
Thing to keep a man sane
The love of a woman
Was sometimes the only
Thing to keep a man sane