Heavy Metal Song with some classical influence by Nicolo Paganini's 4th caprice for solo violin.
tony flying squirrel
Lyrics
Prodigal Son
Based on Luke 15: 11-32,
Words and Music: Tony Flying Squirrel,
literary inspiration by Homer/The Iliad
Vs 1
Father, father, bend and hear, my blessings due, render me now.
To explore beyond these fields, no more to put hands to plow.
With sorrowful ears heard the venerable man, and so, his benevolence began.
Onward to far off lands, no more to callous tired hands.
Ch1
Cry, for wayward child, from home he goes to live so wild
Pray, for lessons learned, Godspeed, sound mind returned
Vs2
To taste strong drink and to feel warm flesh, consort and feast in impudence.
Ostentatiously bereft of my own accord, I squandered that which I'd been blessed.
Patrimony lost, so great a cost; folly fruit of misemployed thoughts.
Hungry and desperate now, Forced to return hands to plow.
Vs3
Perhaps with humility and prayer, father may pardon and God may spare.
To eat of scrap left for dogs, or return mud bound to hogs
In squalor, my honor is stained, brother offended, father's house profaned.
I shall return on knee thus bent, to my father’s house, penitent.
Ch2
Grieve, for I was warned, wastrel deeds thought and performed
Plea, may thou attend, your wayward son, blessing spent
Vs4
With tears of joy father informs," bring golden ring and finest robe!"
I left a prince to return a slave, welcomed in my father's embrace.
Let sin no more bear the sway; command my heart, "unto God, obey."
This grace so profound, I was lost, now I am found.
Ch3
Cheer, for God has won, heart reclaimed, it is done!
Cry! Such tears of joy, life restored, Prodigal Son.