How dare you come back here And tell me that all this is yours When you tired of your life and your child And you sailed for new shores You were always trouble, I knew it before Now, almost a stranger, you're smiling and back at my door Where in your head Lives the strange and self-serving delusion That I'm helpless And pining away in my seclusion? I've raised a good son with a house full of friends And your dog is the only one happy to see you again So go tell the story your way To the boys at the tavern Go invent a triumphant return Go play the man who put me in my place I suspect you'll leave out that I laughed in your face Go invent a triumphant return Go invent a triumphant return While you were out stealing I earned a good name in this town I tore it all down, I leveled this ground and I built And the roots of my home are fully my own You're wrong if you think that I owe you or feel and guilt These lines on my face are from caring for what you abandoned Defending what's mine from the jackals that laugh in the rocks Those scars on your skin are your own from your reckless adventures They don't give you the right to berate me for changing the locks So go tell the story your way To the boys at the tavern Go invent a triumphant return Go play the man who put me in my place I suspect you'll leave out that I laughed in your face Go invent a triumphant return Go invent a triumphant return Go tell the story your way To the boys at the tavern Go invent a triumphant return Go play the man who put me in my place I suspect you'll leave out that I laughed in your face Go invent a triumphant return Go invent a triumphant return Go tell the story your way: a triumphant return Go tell the story your way: a triumphant return Go tell the story your way: a triumphant return Go tell the story your way