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Work in progress...

There’s addition and subtraction
But division overall
Hope once in fluid motion
Has slowed behind a crawl

Oh the images are strong and
The words are pretty good
But there’s more fiction out of Washington
Than out of Hollywood

Chorus:
On the road of good intentions
All gets justified to hell
The price revealed in stories
Too short, too sad to tell

Is this permanent improvement?
Through abbreviated lives?
Or another tragic venture
Shocking when the bill arrives

By the rubble where the house was
There are markers in the dirt
Children with no need for freedom
They can no longer be hurt

Chorus

And the soldiers and their families
With life and limb they pay
While the ones who sent them marching
Get to dance the night away
I always come back to the soldiers
With their courage and ideals
I seem them smoking in the airport
There’s no telling how it feels

Chorus