Willi Carlisle - The Bear lyrics

I'm trying to remember a
Simpler time and place we'd let our knees
Bleed into our roller skates
The rockets and the rock-fights
The white bones of a squirrel
Three acres and two dogs and
A hundred tiny worlds

You were sitting on my shoulders
We were travellin as a pack
Throwing hedge apples by the railroad tracks
When a bear came from the woods
He was lookin' for a feast
He was frightened away by a two-headed beast

If the truth's a moving target
I don't want to shoot to kill
And hang it's head up in
A house I didn't build
They say that love will save you
And I'm glad that we're alive
If I'm lost in the woods
I hope it's you and I
I was station first in Kandahar
At least that's what I could say
We were set to be married
On your 21st birthday
The rockets and the IEDs
The white bones of a man
Nothing much to do but think in
A thousand miles of sand

We were married on a Tuesday
You were comforting to me
I never mentioned much about the IEDs
But I'd lie in bed at night and
I'd admit that I was scared
You'd hold me close and remind
Me of the bear

If the truth's a moving target
Well I hope that I don't miss
Goddamn god bless the percoset and
Every time we kissed
They say that love will save you
I don't think that I'll survive
I'm lost in the woods
With a loaded forty-five