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Wanted to do something different from my standard affair. Couple of glitches as my computer is old and tired.

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It was just before dawn on a tree on a hill
I imagined her leaning on my windowsill
Her grace and her charm were mine for a time
When the marshals came forward to put me in line

It was five in the evening and the forest was ablaze
I ran to the fields and hid in the maize
I saw dead bodies I saw them burn
I saw them run and I saw them turn

I don’t want to kill any more
I am going to leave this bloody war

In the heat of the flame, I saw death rise
He turned his white horse, and left, satisfied
And after the demons had drunken their fill
I was left to dream of the windowsill.

When I joined my friends, all bloodied and bruised
There was quiet talk of feeling abused
I turned them around; said “no mutiny”
We are but soldiers, we’ll never be free

I don’t want to kill them any more
Send the sergeant to the general’s door

We just kept on marching, over field and waste
A handful of souls with pale and white face
To look out me now, would she recognise?
The terrified smile and the death behind my eyes

We turned to the west, as orders dictate
We’re ordered to love and ordered to hate
My lord and my saviour has sent me to die
I do not pray for spit in my eye

I don’t want to kill them any more
Send my enemy running from my door

I’m not who you think, I’m not the good one
I do not bring peace, I’ve murdered your sons
The man that I follow is evil in name
But is it the gun or the man who takes aim?

I’ve killed the reds, now I’ll kill the jews
I’ll murder the English, and then I’ll come for you
I’m the black beast from the Bavarian plain
And I curse my leader like I curse my name

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from Portrait of the Musician as A Younger Man, track released June 22, 2013

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