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What can you see from your window |
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I can't see anything from mine |
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Flags on the side of the highway |
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And scripture on grocery store signs |
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Maybe eighteen was too early |
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Maybe thirty or forty is too |
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Did you get your chance to make peace with the man |
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Before he sent down his angels for you |
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Mamas and grandmamas love you |
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'Cause that's all they know how to do |
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You never planned on the bombs in the sand |
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Or sleeping in your dress blues |
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Your wife said this all would be funny |
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When you came back home in a week |
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You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you |
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In a bar or a tent by the creek |
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Your baby would just about be here |
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Your very last tour would be up |
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But you won't be back They're all dressing in black |
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Drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups |
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Mamas and grandmamas love you |
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American boys hate to lose |
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You never planned on the bombs in the sand |
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Or sleeping in your dress blues |
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Now the high school gymnasium's ready |
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Full of flowers and old legionnaires |
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Nobody showed up to protest |
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Just sniffle and stare |
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But there's red white and blue in the rafters |
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And there's silent old men from the corps |
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What did they say when they shipped you away |
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To fight somebody's Hollywood war |
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Nobody here could forget you |
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You showed us what we had to lose |
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You never planned on the bombs in the sand |
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Or sleeping in your dress blues |
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No no you never planned on the bombs in the sand |
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Or sleeping in your dress blues |
