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The grave

The grave that they dug him had flowers

Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors

And the brown earth bleached white

At the edge of his gravestone, he's gone

When the wars of our nation did beckon

A man barely twenty did answer the calling

Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation, he's gone

But eternity knows him and it knows what we've done

And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers

Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry

And deep in the trench he waited for hours

As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die

But the silence of night was shattered by fire

As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air

One after another his comrades were slaughtered

In morgue of marines, alone standing there

He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear

They can't let me die, they can't let me die here

I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth

And I'll cover myself, I know I'm not brave

The earth

The earth

The earth

Is my grave

The grave that they dug him had flowers

Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors

And the brown earth bleached white

At the edge of his gravestone, he's gone

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