Warrior Lyrics

	This is the best time of the day—the dawn
	The final cleansing breath unsullied yet
	By acrid fume or death's cacophony
	The rank refuse of unchained ambition
	And pray, deny me not but know me now,
	Your faithful retainer stands resolute
	To serve his liege lord without recompense
	Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
	No flag-draped bier or muffled drum to set
	The cadence for a final dress parade
	But it was not always thus—remember?
	Once you worshipped me and named me a god
	In many tongues and made offering lest
	I exact too terrible a tribute
	Take heed for I am weary, ancient
	And decrepit now and my time grows short
	There are no honorable frays to join
	Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs
	Or horror unleashed from across oceans
	Assail me not with noble policy
	For I care not at all for platitude
	And surrender such tedious detail
	To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues
	Singular in their purpose and resolve
	And presuming to speak for everyman
	Oh, for another time, a distant field
	And there a mortal warrior's lonely grave
	But duty charges me remain until
	The end the last battle of the last war
	Until that ‘morrow render unto me
	That which is mine my stipend well deserved
	The fairest flower of your progeny
	Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams
	The cruel consequence of your conceit

	This is the best time of the day the dawn
	The final cleansing breath unsullied yet
	By acrid fume or death' s cacophony
	The rank refuse of unchained ambition
	And pray, deny me not but know me now,
	Your faithful retainer stands resolute
	To serve his liege lord without recompense
	Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
	No flagdraped bier or muffled drum to set
	The cadence for a final dress parade
	But it was not always thus remember?
	Once you worshipped me and named me a god
	In many tongues and made offering lest
	I exact too terrible a tribute
	Take heed for I am weary, ancient
	And decrepit now and my time grows short
	There are no honorable frays to join
	Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs
	Or horror unleashed from across oceans
	Assail me not with noble policy
	For I care not at all for platitude
	And surrender such tedious detail
	To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues
	Singular in their purpose and resolve
	And presuming to speak for everyman
	Oh, for another time, a distant field
	And there a mortal warrior' s lonely grave
	But duty charges me remain until
	The end the last battle of the last war
	Until that ' morrow render unto me
	That which is mine my stipend well deserved
	The fairest flower of your progeny
	Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams
	The cruel consequence of your conceit

	This is the best time of the day the dawn
	The final cleansing breath unsullied yet
	By acrid fume or death' s cacophony
	The rank refuse of unchained ambition
	And pray, deny me not but know me now,
	Your faithful retainer stands resolute
	To serve his liege lord without recompense
	Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
	No flagdraped bier or muffled drum to set
	The cadence for a final dress parade
	But it was not always thus remember?
	Once you worshipped me and named me a god
	In many tongues and made offering lest
	I exact too terrible a tribute
	Take heed for I am weary, ancient
	And decrepit now and my time grows short
	There are no honorable frays to join
	Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs
	Or horror unleashed from across oceans
	Assail me not with noble policy
	For I care not at all for platitude
	And surrender such tedious detail
	To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues
	Singular in their purpose and resolve
	And presuming to speak for everyman
	Oh, for another time, a distant field
	And there a mortal warrior' s lonely grave
	But duty charges me remain until
	The end the last battle of the last war
	Until that ' morrow render unto me
	That which is mine my stipend well deserved
	The fairest flower of your progeny
	Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams
	The cruel consequence of your conceit

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