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Civilized Men
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I'm a lyricist who's been fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of collaborating with a few very talented musicians/artists. Above is the result of some of those collaborations.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #390
Peak in subgenre #105
Author
Jonie Hajduk/lyrics - Don Sechelski/music & vocals
Rights
Sept 2010
Uploaded
September 19, 2010
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MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:16
Story behind the song
A song about war
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Civilized Men Fresh from their musters and straight into war Battalions of soldiers stampeded the shore Some there for love of their God and their country Others were fighting for more In a war between civilized men Praying for silence that follows the storm They called out to mothers and wives safe at home Barraged and beleaguered, they fell like a forest Then bled side by side, all alone And they died there like civilized men I look to the heavens and wonder at us How angry we all seem to be While inside a doorway, a victim of war Longs for a moment of peace The winners and losers, the treaties and deals The wounds that will fester and never quite heal The soldiers amassed at the edge of a nightmare Eating their last blessed meal In the strongholds of civilized men I look to the heavens and wonder at us How angry we all seem to be While inside a doorway, a victim of war Longs for a moment of peace There are no martyrs who die to defend Just fathers and brothers, our children, our friends All that remains of the valor and vengeance Are the tears we all cry in the end And we call ourselves civilized men
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