Tom Flannery
Antietam
I was baptized in the Antietampreacher said I was good to gosaid the Lord'd been here onceand put on quite a showsaid we needed a good cleansingthen he cracked open a beersaid son do you realizejust what happened hereMy parents were born and raisedyou can't choose where you're spit outdaddy worked the railroadsleft mamma with all the doubtshe said the house was hauntedwith dying union boysand she'd sit up until the dawncomplaining about the noiseSharpsburg...Antietamor by any other nameyou can call it what you willit was a bad day just the sameDaddy didn't know what to doso he'd take her by the handand force her out into these fieldsLetras de cancionesto make her understandthat the war is surely overyou can look it up he saidthe living go on livingand the dead they remain deadSo I grew up in a bottlemoved on to amphetiminesfigured I'd take my chancesbut got stuck in betweendaddy died in '90right before the first gulf warmamma said don't you dare boybut I went and joined the corpsSharpsburg...Antietamor by any other nameyou can call it what you willit was a bad day just the sameI came home a little latermissing pieces of my mindI'd sleep out in bloody lanewhen I needed to unwindstarted to hear the same thingsthat mamma said she heardI'd seen the ghosts myself sirnow their company I preferredIt's a big ol' shitty worldit's kill or be killedlook around you misterguns lining these hillsyou wanna get out of hereyou gotta cut your way throughtoo much water under that bridgetoo much that we got used toSharpsburg...Antietamor by any other nameyou can call it what you willit was a bad day just the same
From Letras Mania