Slaid Cleaves - Still Fighting The War lyrics
[Slaid Cleaves - Still Fighting The War lyrics]
Hard times coming home now
Can’t get your feet on the ground
Got some issues, and no one wants you around
Barely sleeping and you can’t get through
To the VA on the phone no one’s hiring
And no one wants to give you a loan
And everyone else is carrying on just
Like they’ve always done before
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
Flashback to Fallujah
Lost another best friend
Three tours of duty and you wonder
When it’s all gonna end
Body’s broken and bone shattered
Blood and dust in your mouth
Gettin’ weary but you’re running with
The few and the proud
Sometimes you wonder why you went
You never wonder what you stayed on for
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
Men go off to war for a hundred reasons
But they all come home with the same demons
Some you can keep at bay for a while
And some will pin you to the floor
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
The bedspread is fraying
Faded and tearing apart
Two strangers, holding each other in the dark
Tell me what were you dreaming
How did you think it would end?
How many heroes are scattered
Out into the wind?
And all the happily ever afters turn
To broken dishes and slamming doors
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
Can’t get your feet on the ground
Got some issues, and no one wants you around
Barely sleeping and you can’t get through
To the VA on the phone no one’s hiring
And no one wants to give you a loan
And everyone else is carrying on just
Like they’ve always done before
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
Flashback to Fallujah
Lost another best friend
Three tours of duty and you wonder
When it’s all gonna end
Body’s broken and bone shattered
Blood and dust in your mouth
Gettin’ weary but you’re running with
The few and the proud
Sometimes you wonder why you went
You never wonder what you stayed on for
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
Men go off to war for a hundred reasons
But they all come home with the same demons
Some you can keep at bay for a while
And some will pin you to the floor
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war
The bedspread is fraying
Faded and tearing apart
Two strangers, holding each other in the dark
Tell me what were you dreaming
How did you think it would end?
How many heroes are scattered
Out into the wind?
And all the happily ever afters turn
To broken dishes and slamming doors
You’ve been home for a coupla
Years now buddy but you’re
Still fighting the war