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Cigarettes and a bottle of beer |
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This poem that I wrote for you |
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This black stone and these hard tears |
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Are all I got left now of you |
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I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing |
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Laughing at your ship out party |
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I read Robert McNamara says he's sorry |
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Your high boots and striped T-shirt |
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Oh Billy you looked so bad |
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You and your rock-n-roll band |
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You were the best thing this shit town ever had |
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Now the men who put you here |
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Eat with their families in rich dining halls |
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And apology and forgiveness |
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Got no place here at all |
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Here at the wall |
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I'm sorry I missed you last year |
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I couldn't find no one to drive me |
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If your eyes could cut through that black stone |
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Tell me would they recognize me |
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For the living time it must be served, |
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The day goes on |
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Cigarettes and a bottle of beer |
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Skin on black stone |
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On the ground dog tags and wreaths of flowers |
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With the ribbons red as the blood |
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Red as the blood you spilled |
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In the Central Highlands mud |
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Limousines rush down Pennsylvania Avenue |
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Rustling the leaves as they fall |
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And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all |
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Here at the wall |
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