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War Torn Man

from War Torn Man by Rodney DeCroo

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My daddy be a war torn man,
he just do the best he can.
That damn war marked him for life,
and he can't keep a lover,
and he can't keep a wife.

My daddy don't like to be touched,
and he don't like to talk too much.
He stands distant most of the time,
he's got trouble on his mind.

He got dreams that make hard men weep.
He got dreams that make it hard to sleep.
He does things that you say you cannot understand.
Maybe you can't understand,
because you ain't no war torn man.

My daddy roams from town to town,
he don't like to settle down,
he's got demons chase him 'round,
he's got secrets buried in the ground.

Once I heard my daddy cry.
I was six and I didn't know why.
All alone in the living room dark,
with a bottle, a shotgun, a bombed out heart.

He got dreams that make hard men weep.
He got dreams that make it very hard to sleep.
He does things that you say you cannot understand.
Maybe you can't understand,
because you ain't no war torn man.

Once I heard my daddy speak,
he said I learned this knowledge boy, I learned it deep,
life is fragile, life is cheap,
I found bodies piled in a heap.

That burned flesh and gasoline smell,
filled my nostrils as the wind swelled,
and I knew then devil didn't make hell,
man did it himself and he did it really fucking well.

He got dreams that make hard men weep.
He got dreams that make it hard to sleep.
He does things you say you cannot understand.
Maybe you can't understand,
because you ain't no war torn man.

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from War Torn Man, released February 15, 2006

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