Carbon Leaf - The War Was In Color lyrics
[Carbon Leaf - The War Was In Color lyrics]
I see you've found a box of my things:
Infantries, tanks
And smoldering airplane wings
These old pictures are cool
Tell me some stories
Was it like the old war movies?
Sit down, son let me fill you in
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Don't capture the skin
From the flash of a gun
To a soldier who's done trust me, grandson
The war was in color
From shipyard to sea, from factory to sky
From rivet to rifle
From boot camp to battle cry
I wore the mask up high on a daylight run
That held my face in it's clammy hand
Crawled over coconut logs and corpses
In the coral sand
Where to begin? Let¹s start with the end
This black and white photo
Don't capture the skin
From the shock of a shell
Or the memory of smell if red is for Hell
The war was in color
I held the canvas bag over the railing
The dead released
With the ship still sailing
Out of our hands and into the swallowing sea
I felt the crossfire, stitching up soldiers
Into a blanket of dead
And as the night grows colder
In a window back home
A Blue Star is traded for Gold
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Don't capture the skin
When metal is churned and bodies are burned
Victory earned the war was in color
Now I lay in my grave at age 21
Long before you were born
Before I bore a son what good did it do?
Well, hopefully, for you a world without war
A life full of color
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Never captured my skin
Once it was torn from an enemy thorn
Straight through the core -
The war was in color
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Never captured my skin
From the flash of a gun
To a soldier who's done trust me, grandson
The war was in color
Trust me, grandson the war was in color
Trust me, grandson the war was in color
Infantries, tanks
And smoldering airplane wings
These old pictures are cool
Tell me some stories
Was it like the old war movies?
Sit down, son let me fill you in
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Don't capture the skin
From the flash of a gun
To a soldier who's done trust me, grandson
The war was in color
From shipyard to sea, from factory to sky
From rivet to rifle
From boot camp to battle cry
I wore the mask up high on a daylight run
That held my face in it's clammy hand
Crawled over coconut logs and corpses
In the coral sand
Where to begin? Let¹s start with the end
This black and white photo
Don't capture the skin
From the shock of a shell
Or the memory of smell if red is for Hell
The war was in color
I held the canvas bag over the railing
The dead released
With the ship still sailing
Out of our hands and into the swallowing sea
I felt the crossfire, stitching up soldiers
Into a blanket of dead
And as the night grows colder
In a window back home
A Blue Star is traded for Gold
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Don't capture the skin
When metal is churned and bodies are burned
Victory earned the war was in color
Now I lay in my grave at age 21
Long before you were born
Before I bore a son what good did it do?
Well, hopefully, for you a world without war
A life full of color
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Never captured my skin
Once it was torn from an enemy thorn
Straight through the core -
The war was in color
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo
Never captured my skin
From the flash of a gun
To a soldier who's done trust me, grandson
The war was in color
Trust me, grandson the war was in color
Trust me, grandson the war was in color