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Sep 25, 2014
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Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute you're right there... And something slips
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute you're right there... And something slips
The last verse is the most heartfelt to me. About youth, and how in minute your there, young with all the dreams and hopes of a full life, a beautiful wife and family, love of country and then somehow, you are who you are now. Sharing in nothing with who you wanted to be. Whenever I hear that verse I always think of when my wife and I were young, and holding hands meant something.
Sep 25, 2014
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Saigon, it was all gone
The same Coke machines
As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge
The same Coke machines
As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge
It seems like to me that he's speaking to his estranged grown daughter, possibly connecting with her after years of isolation from his family.