Fade To Taps

July 31, 2009. © Talon Truitt Cherry, All rights reserved

The Anthem plays loud in the background
Crowds of people cheer and clap
The patriots sing halleluiah
As America sounds its next attack
Back from silence, blind with furry
Too blurry eyed to face the facts
The weight of war crushes our soldiers
The Anthem stops and fades to taps

Body bags of cost soon fallow
Victory cannot soon subside
The pain behind a mothers sorrow
When she finds her son has died
The wicked truth revealed tomorrow
A bitter day when angels cry
How long it lasts this time we barrow
You see it now our leaders lie

Black our hearts, now filled with anger
Danger lurks in angers grasp
This new realities hard swallow
In time of sorrow our Anthems back
Back from silence, blind with furry
Too blurry eyed to face the facts
The weight of war crushes our soldiers
The Anthem stops and fades to taps

Sound the bugle! The war is over
We lost the purpose, and the fight
Overthrown by our own creation
This new agenda is not right
Break free the people were the power
Use your voice, bring forth the might
Bestowed on us by our founding fathers
Erase the demons, restore the light

If no one stands the war still wages
Words like mine slip through the cracks
Body bags build through the ages
Cages hold our people back
Stack the bodies in our backyard
Its our fault they die and that’s the facts
Face them now you “patriot”!
Or replace our anthem with bitter taps