Take your seat by the ringside
Watch them bidding for your blood
Who will own you tomorrow
Will you be misunderstood
Take me back to the Father
Take me, take me, take me home
For I can't bear to feel the sorrow
Of the evil that you've shown

Keep your ear to the grapevine
Hear them sell you down the line
Watch them cross you tomorrow
While they smile and say it's fine
Take me back to the country
Let me, let me, let me roam
For I can't bear to feel the sorrow
Of the evil that you've shown
Of the evil that you've shown me

Why oh why, did you prove me wrong
When my faith in you was strong, really strong
Oh but now, the magic's gone

Take me back to the Father
Take me, take me, take me home
For I can't bear to feel the sorrow, oh
Of the evil that you've shown
Of the evil that you've shown