Shock And Awe

Neil Young

Tom: C

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    Back in the days of shock and awe,
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    we came to liberate them all.
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    History was the cruel judge of overconfidence,
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    back in the days of shock and awe.

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    Back in the days of "mission accomplished",
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    our chief was landing on the deck.
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    The sun was setting on a golden photo op,
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    back in the days of "mission accomplished".

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    Thousands of bodies in the ground,
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    brought home in boxes to a trumpet's sound.
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    No one sees them coming home that way,
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    thousands buried in the ground.

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    Thousands of children scarred for life,
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    millions of tears for a soldier's wife.
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    Both sides are losing now, Heaven takes them in,
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    thousands of children scarred for life.

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    We had a chance to change our mind,
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    but somehow wisdom was hard to find.
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    We went with what we knew and now we can't go back,
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    but we had a chance to change our mind.


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