
making an exempel to those who are not involved
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the perfect soldier goes fishing because he´s unemployed
the unsafety on his rifle cant me moved because it´s rusty
his uniform is laying in the addict coverd in mold
he encourages his oldest son not to join the army
you cant find his fingerprints on his trigger
strictly strikt exterior but inside he feels missplaced
nor a collected decapited trophys from the perimider
he writes white lies in his letters for his beloved´s solace
dont show fear, keep his cohorts calm with chocolate bars
he feels that the military stole five years of his mid-twenties
keeping his sanity with cigarettes and postcards
and all he received back was a limp leg and bad memorys
not bragging to his friends about his armyservice or survival
he prefers to call it an obligation and not an honorable cause
and let´s his kids play cowboy and indian with his medel
exaggerated situation when strangers welcomes him home whit applause
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there's a white flag coveerd with bullet holes
making an exempel to those who are not involved
The perfect soldier/Odes to the postmodern century 2004
