The Wall

Album: High Hopes (2014)
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  • Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
    This poem that I wrote for you
    This black stone and these hard tears
    Are all I got left now of you
    I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing
    Laughing at your ship-out party
    I read Robert McNamara says he's sorry

    Your high boots and striped t-shirt
    Ah Billy, you looked so bad
    Yeah, you and your rock-n-roll band
    You were best thing this shit town ever had
    Now the men who put you here
    Eat with their families in rich dining halls
    And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all
    At the wall

    Well, I'm sorry I missed you last year
    Couldn't find no one to drive me
    If your eyes could cut through that black stone
    Tell me, would they recognize me?
    For the living time it must be served
    The day goes on
    Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
    Skin on black stone

    On the ground, dog tags and wreaths of flowers
    With ribbons red as the blood
    Red as the blood you spilled in the Central Highlands mud
    Limousines rush down Pennsylvania Avenue
    Rustling the leaves as they fall
    And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all
    Here at the wall Writer/s: Bruce Springsteen
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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