Patriot

Whether forever, or never again

I see you gone

And now, I just want to be there with you,

Forever…

Oh, how your eyes fell into mine

And we stirred to find the world alive

Like we couldn’t feel the decline…

Old railroad, take me away to that time

When men held something close.

The place where we touched the flame,

We burned slowly before it

All went up in smoke.

Smoke, stone, broken bones

A hard place we called a home

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I saw with my own eyes us unraveling

While others took to your side.

Men of priviledge and class,

They danced, they drank, they

Robbed the whole place blind.

And drunk with Pride, you hurt, you stole

But I still carried you home.

From the jungles, to the deserts, to the trenches’ reddened snow,

So maybe Hell ain’t a place

It’s a time, a time, a time when things move on

Ain’t it a cryin’ shame, that after all this we lived to see it gone

Pieces in my hands

Try’n to put ‘em back

Just the way they were before

How we tamed earth and broke rock just to bring us close

20,000 miles of steel across the great unknown

You can’t put a fallen leaf back on the tree…

Oh, say can’t you see,

That they’ve taken you from me

All I wanted was to be there with you forever.