Ignoring you is almost impossible
Like looking in your eyes
Every time troops of hazel walk by
As if your world has me under attack
Possible, but I lack the idea
As you surly have
Marching cross more lines than I
On your way up
You'll be crossing more than that
Would you prefer the white flag
I'd surrender under your comfort
When taking my heart in thought
As you are to me
Dear
More than you know
Thundering the ground
One step at a time
All for ours, yours and mine
With you're very own soul
Don't let go
As in unison
Sleeve by sleeve
young ones, by one by one
By one
All marching on
Where respect is due
One hundred million men
Joined in arms with sisters stand
Behind the men who have been
A wrinkle in time, marching on
Shown it's years of trama
In lines through those
As through the years of training
sharing what he knows
In hopes
His children come home
Feeling the fear as they walk on
Knowing the times to come
When they too
may soon stand alone
And deeper those thoughts
Of our children coming home
As the weight of our nations fear
Rest like bars of iron and hope
On the wings of broken angels
Knowing yet what they do not know
As shown his face of stone
In the heart of flesh
As a father to those
Known soon the days will come
A departure
The Great Unknown
In silent tears he whispers
"Carry on"
In his years of sending
Yet receiving those coming home
Whole, lost, and draped in stars
Where the others will bough
To stand tall and salute under god
With hands joined
Over their hearts
For those going home
to the sound
All too well known
One trumpet play lone
Taps
Lay behind a face of stone
A sergeant all to well know
Beating a heart within his flesh
The angel in broken wings stand
In silence
As tears under his breath whisper
"Carry on" my child "carry on"
I'm the name of freedom
"Carry on"