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    Weathered statues...           
Tin soldiers that march in our parks

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                  Wrapped in yellow 
newsprint, on their benches in the 
dark

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    Their faces filled with sadness,
 sorrow drawn from your nights

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    Surviving on old glories but now
 the....    the glories have died

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          Let ring...
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    Lonely men who are tortured...  
 once proud, but now forlorn
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    Gnarled hands hold canes where, 
 their guns once were before

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    Taunted by the children, who's 
parents lives he saved

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    Forgotten by a state, whose leg 
in war he gave

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    Silver gleams upon his chest, 
though sweat gleams on his brow

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    Darker days and sable knights, 
who work upon his soul

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    His honor flew away from him,  
like pigeons on the wind

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    Spending his last pennies,  on 
cheap wines and sin

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    But still they make the 
soldiers... and soldiers still grow 
old

   (Pick slide...)


    Pump their minds with dignity, 
then let the young men go

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   Another day, another statue...   
falls out in the dawn

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    Weathered statues...            
  Still march on and on

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