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The Ashes

I threw old pictures away
I cleaned out my closet
I listened to music sway
from a long dead poet

I found a letter I burned
but I kept the ashes
a government seal
still remains
amongst charred withered pages

and it's hard to remember why
in an envelope kept inside
of a jacket you gave me
you side I'd look good in
the winter time

I drink my coffee
I turn on the news
the ticker screams of a war
we would win
bur we would surely lose

I turned over tables
like Christ in the temple
and I let your purple heart
fall like the victim 

and it's hard to remember why
with a war raging deep inside
of a jacket you gave me
you side I'd look good in
the winter time

and I missed you 
like a bullet misses a target
and kills someone else in the way
and as I lay sleeping I pray for the nightmare
that haunts my thoughts each day

where I can feel your body with me
but I know I must be dreaming
I wake without you baby and it's hard
not to be screamin'

and it's hard to remember why
and it's hard to remember her
but still I remember
love

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from Live Like You're Going Home, released October 11, 2011
Caleb Chancey - Baritone Ukulele, Vocal, BGV's, Glockenspiel

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War Jacket is a ambient folk quartet from Birmingham, Alabama.

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