Tom O'Brien
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5/19/2009 12:28:34 AM
Don't let the title put you off!
My song, "Clara Barton" has gotten exactly 2 plays thus far. Now, it may be that you know that she founded the American Red Cross and you can't imagine a song about her being good or in any way interesting, or it may be that you've never heard of her and you think it's a dorky name about some chick.
But give it a try! It's a catchy pop song and is a VERY loose metaphorical type of thing about relationships. Here's the lyric:
Long ago you held me like a puppet from the toy box
Then you banished me like I was suffering with smallpox
You're the only one who ever cared to dress my wounds
Now you're gone
All the other soldiers had their sympathetic nurses
All of them had songs to sing with sympathetic verses
You're the only one who ever cared to sing my tune
Now you're gone
Now you're dead and gone gone away
Now you're dead and gone gone away
Now you're dead and gone
Sleeping on the battlefield I dreamed that I was near you
Praying just that I'd awaken close enough to hear you
Through the showers of mortar fire I held you in my head
Now you're gone
Now you're dead and gone, etc.
Heaven's angels' infantry
Marches through our infancy
Choosing who will stay and
Who will leave
No one had the courage or the strength to stand beside you
I wish that I had been there when that dying man defied you
I hear you kissed his eyes as he lay bleeding in your arms
Now he's gone
Now you're dead and gone, etc.
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