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I have wandered so far from home

I thought I was doing the right think

Asking for what was rightfully mine

But now I am not sure I can make it on my own

Each footstep takes me farther away from the land I love

I have wrongly spent my inheritance

on things that would make my family ashamed

My money is almost gone, have I had enough

My friends are gone and so is my treasure

I find some work taking care of the pigs

Now with no food, I’m eating with the swime

This life has cost me my pleasure

I must go home and be my father’s slave

Any life would be better than this

Being his worker, then I would have food

I don’t know what he’ll think, but I must be brave

And then I saw him down the road

Like he’d been watching for me

He started running with all his might

and he gave me his robe

He had a feast prepared for me

a meal, I didn’t deserve

but I was lost, and now I’m found

My father’s love set me free

My brother was mad

but my father changed his mind

“Don’t you see,” he said

“We all should be very glad

We have a right to celebrate

For he was dead and is now alive

God has brought him back to us

and I think that is so great.”

I was overwhelmed at my father’s love

But ever so glad to be home

For there is nothing like him ruuning to me

As I ran into his outstretched arms of love

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