Generations of soldiers put their lives on hold only to face injustice in their own country.
Acoustic style Vocal Band, Wedding Band
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Story behind the song
This song is dedicated to generations of men who have fought distant battles for the freedom of others only to attacked and eliminated by the enemy on their own soil.
Lyrics
“Justice delayed is justice denied”
But for that justice men have died
For the love of liberty they cross the wires
While back at home that liberty expires
I guess I’m leavin’ to go, this won’t stand in our way
Duty’s got our life on hold, “mission’s first” they say, but we will last
Men die for ideals in foreign lands
While back at home their children ripped from their hands
Children are liberty but like slaves are sold
The promise broken, a life on hold
A family torn, a nation divided
The judge cares not, injustice decided
The enemy within, the domestic liar
Good men, casualties of “friendly fire”
In a quiet war, ears ringing from the day before…
Christmas, nineteen forty-four
The fire’s ceased and still… no time to think or dream
Just waiting like a rabbit in the bloody kill… I’m not what I must seem
And freedom belongs to those with a mind
Our time was up and all decided when the paper was signed
Now liberty expires on board for all they say
It’s something in the Constitution… like children, taken away
Somewhere across the ocean came a boy as a man
Somewhere across the trenches is a man like myself
And freedom is left for those with a life
Attention undivided to the photos in Time
Now liberty expires in country for all they say
For freedom’s operation numbers… they’re passing away
Freedom! Freedom! Give me liberty or death
The world’s getting smaller but it’s years since I’ve been home
I’m taking my last breath I fear, my liberty is near
In a body bag was only a man
His name, his religion, his identity were written on his tag
And the widow’s flag… it will never be the same
For his wife and his child it is never clear who’s the enemy to blame
Liberty’s expired, liberty’s expired
Now she’s old and gray standing at the stone just like yesterday
Another Christmas war, year two thousand and four
A new hole dug for her grandson near the body of her husband dear
It’s all summed up to just the names and the years
Served the family name, left a family’s tears
Liberty’s expired. The widow gets a flag
The love of a soldier, the love her man left her feeling so low
Their lives were the price we paid and the promise old for a life on hold
The crimes against humanity, too many to list them
Dads missing in action, casualties of the system
Injured for life and prisoners of this war
It makes you wonder what they were fighting for
Buried as heroes then buried by paper
They fought for liberty, while the courts still rape her
Fair treatment of men, a common desire
We can not accept that liberty should expire
