Products of the War
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We lost the world that we once knew,
a world made up of me and you.
Always on some high adventure,
that my parents would have censured.
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They would have stopped us if they knew
that I was in a plane with you.
Checking out the city lights to
barnstorming on summer nights.
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Dipping,diving in the air
as if we didn't have a care.
Young and foolish you and I
never thinking we could die.
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"Live today forget tomorrow,
time is something we can't borrow ".
But our motto lost its sheen
when the war came on the scene.
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When you had to go away
to fight the war that fateful day.
You returned an empty shell.
Not the same boy I could tell.
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You hate the world you've come to know,
a world that's made your heart hurt so.
A world that's sad and desolate.
A world that you cannot forget.
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A world that's cruel and unforgiving.
A world that made life not worth living.
It's sad, the war has changed you so.
You're not the boy I used to know.

(c) May 15, 2012