Slaid Cleaves - Still Fighting The War Lyrics
Hard times coming home now, can’t get your feet on the groundGot some issues, and no one wants you aroundBarely sleeping and you can’t get through to the VA on the phoneNo one’s hiring, and no one wants to give you a loanAnd everyone else is carrying on just like they’ve always done beforeYou’ve been home for a coupla years now buddy but you’reStill fighting the warFlashback to Fallujah, lost another best friendThree tours of duty and you wonder when it’s all gonna endBody’s broken and bone shattered, blood and dust in your mouthGettin’ weary but you’re running with the few and the proudSometimes you wonder why you went, You never wonder what you stayed on forYou’ve been home for a coupla years now buddy but you’reStill fighting the warMen go off to war for a hundred reasonsBut they all come home with the same demonsSome you can keep at bay for a whileAnd some will pin you to the floorYou’ve been home for a coupla years now buddy but you’reStill fighting the warThe bedspread is fraying, faded and tearing apartTwo strangers, holding each other in the darkTell 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 doorsYou’ve been home for a coupla years now buddy but you’reStill fighting the war
