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Aug 2015
The sweat ran in rivulets from my body beset by dreams
Of devastation and horror invading my my mind
Body parts floating in pools of jellied blood
Kids as young as ten now high on drink and drugs
Why then did we give our lives
To make the world a better place
Why then the blood we shed for you
Is good blood gone to waste
You know, we bled for you, suffered, died
To give you a better place
But you laugh in scorn and hurl abuse
Kick dust into our face

We suffered, we died to give you democracy
Our bodies rot in foreign lands
To give you freedoms speech
But you hurl our dying in the faces
Of those who died for you
Oh you, the drug fueled simpletons
Who don't even try to acknowledge
What we gave up for you
For your tomorrow
We gave up our today
Joe Cole
Written by
Joe Cole  Horsham Sussex
(Horsham Sussex)   
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