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Barrel of a Gun
"Justice comes from the barrel of a gun"
This sound wrong?
Or am I the only one?
War cry, or Death's song?
Rebels conspire
Goverment watches them roast
On a funeral pyre
The smoke blends with the ghosts
Barrel of a gun
A dead sons
Bodies dry up in the sun
Dogs eat
Dead meat
Blood mixed with sand
Too hard to talk
Too understand
So to war they walk
Live by the barrel of a gun
This sound wrong?
Or am I the only one?
War cry, or Death's song?
Rebels conspire
Goverment watches them roast
On a funeral pyre
The smoke blends with the ghosts
Barrel of a gun
A dead sons
Bodies dry up in the sun
Dogs eat
Dead meat
Blood mixed with sand
Too hard to talk
Too understand
So to war they walk
Live by the barrel of a gun
Published 12th Nov 2009
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13th Nov 2009 1:15am
Anonymous
13th Nov 2009 11:29am
yeah the govt eats them with their toast.everything is ridden with politics,all that patriotic bullshit.i like the last two stanzas, they are really graphic.
14th Nov 2009 00:00am
13th Nov 2009 10:21pm
It rocks - and I also think all struggling young poets (I'm the biggest struggler of all time) could check the basics through before posting 'To' when they mean 'Too' ... twice. Sorry, but this is heavee metal.
14th Nov 2009 00:00am
26th Mar 2011 11:38pm
I almost wept while reading this, as it rings true in my life. I've got 5 friends in the military, and an uncle in Afghan right now. Each one killed, no matter what side, is still a mother's son...
