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The War Came Home To Me
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Accoustic guitar driven rocker with string section.
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Melodic folk/rock/pop acoustic-based music with meaningful lyrics, strong hooks, and detailed recording. Download individual tracks! DEAN MAD..
70's and 80's influenced music informed by 90's alt. Often compared to Elton John, Toad the Wet Sprocket, David Silvan, Kevin Gilbert, Toy Matinee, Tonic, Coldplay, Radiohead, Blind Melon.
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Genre
Rock • Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #1,292
Peak in subgenre #54
Author
Dean Madonia
Rights
1998
Uploaded
July 01, 2004
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MP3 5.0 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
I was thinking about the effects of war back here in the USA. The verses are about two vets, one from Vietnam and the other from WWII who had suffered from the war and felt compelled to share their sufering with me.
Lyrics
I was a child in '72 and my sitter Mrs. Plews Made me watch the evening news Force-fed me her Christian views Her son returning from the war spoke to me in metaphors Pulled down my pants and tried to score I left the room and I closed that door Shells rang out like thunder but only in my head Hiding in my foxhole safe among the dead Looking back I clearly see the consequence of victory I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me My father was in world war two The training left him black and blue But he found something he could do While choking on his world-view He had a mastoid in his ear It made it hard for him to hear The sickness filled him up with fear I watched him slowly dissapear Shells rang out like thunder but only in my head Hiding in my foxhole safe among the dead Looking back I clearly see the consequence of victory I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me
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