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Blue and Gray

from True North by David Sobel

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Mothers hide your sons
They’ll take what they can get
Fourteen ‘ain’t too young
To fit them with a rifle and a cap
Tell ‘em that they’re fighting for the flag
Answer to the doubt that nips and nags
God is on our side

Letters make their way
To the ones they love
The ink that marks the page
May as well be blood that flows between
What you’ve heard and wish you’d never seen
Is victory supposed to wash you clean
I can’t rightly say

‘an if heavens where I’m bound
with all the just and right
that God has sorted out
would it come as a surprise
to see another man
who died for the other side

Glory often fades
Like sugar on the tongue
For when you’ve killed a man
For what you’re told he stood for drives that hate
Across your fields and burning through your states
Will this burden ever lose it’s weight
When all is said and done

The fallen make no sound
Nothing left to say
The night cannot discern
Betweent the blue and gray when all is quiet
Politics and prayers have all retired
On the wind a mother softly cries

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from True North, released December 26, 2014

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