What are the lyrics to The Rustic Overtones - Letter to the President?!
Question:
What are the lyrics to The Rustic Overtones - Letter to the President?
I know they're a Maine band and the song is recent and for sale at Bull Moose, but I live in Texas now!
Answers: Dear Mr. President,
I'm a soldier with the 82nd airborne stationed overseas. My family and my friends all pray that God is watching over me; but even God can't save us now.
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Mr. President, I'm writing you this poem, and I've sent along a picture of my family back at home. I hear my heartbeat loud out in these killing fields alone; I always hit my target--I just miss my happy home.
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When will be the end of this all? When will be the end of this all, now that our back is against the wall? (Whoa).
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I joined the army like my father did, and his father before. I saw army green canvas look like perfect art of war; but the images I see now aren't like the ones I saw before. How am I a hero if I don't know what it's for?
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Days are getting longer, nights I never get to sleep, and I just had a newborn daughter that I hope I get to see. I've got bloodshed on my conscience--she's so innocent and free--I just killed some baby's father, better him instead of me (?)
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When will be the end of this all? Tell me, when will be the end of this all, now that our back is against the wall, and mankind is getting small?
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Before the warlife it was beautiful; we marched out in the sun, now it's stars and stripes at funerals, our darkest days have come. Dyin' in this combat zone, it scares me half to death, cuz if I don't make it to heaven what's to live for after death? I've seen mothers of the friends I've lost out marching in a crowd cuz their sons are wear purple hearts inside their coffins in the ground, when they left for war, they thought their mommas would be proud, when they faced off with their enemies, they thought they'd take him down…
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Hatred is tearing us all apart.
Separation is tearing the World apart.
Corruption is playing its part…mhmm…"