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“Old Soldier” is how I understand my Uncle Steve, who was an ex-Marine and a kind soul who lived with unshared burdens. But he was a steady presence in my childhood home, and helped to protect us from traumas of mental illness. This song documents his struggle to tell me his story, a rock song set to a Waylon Jennings “Hittin’ the Bottle Again” type beat.
lyrics
Old Soldier
(C. Murphy)
On a bed you float in a jungle in the dark
On the Mekong Delta underneath the stars
While boys with guns aim at your heart
And you think about your brothers in that Tudor home in Mahwah
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier still off at the war
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier, come home
In a bunkhouse you sit with your Bible and smoke
While the air grows thick with troops, curses, and jokes
You want to share a story but you only share a note
About the language school and the motor pool in that shelter in Seattle
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier still off at the war
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier, come home
You shielded me, I know
From a war that was raging inside my home
If I could… if I could lift that heavy pack
And I’d take off that burden, you could finally come back
Well, you asked me to meet but you never told me why
And I watched your hands shake and you ordered in Thai
And that story that you started you swallowed up inside
And your face looked down and your eyes grew round in that restaurant in Boston
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier still off at the war
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier, come home
Come home
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