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Walking Wounded

from Songs On Purpose by Jane Fallon

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Walking Wounded: We meet many people everyday who are quiet victims of loss or abuse. This is for them

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Walking Wounded

Here’s to the walking wounded caught up in some purgatory place,
Void of time and space, longing for rebirth as they wander on this earth.

A bomb goes off in Bagdad and nothing’s left of someone’s baby boy.
A folded flag in his mama’s hands, as his daddy stands
his shoulders shake as he tries to forget the pain
and remember all the joy.
Somehow they’ll manage to go on
but with every breath they take they will always know
a part of them is gone.

And there’ s a hobo in an alleyway, asleep beneath the front page news.
Target of the pelting rain, wearing someone else’s worn out shoes
And hope is what is left inside some kid’s discarded Dixie Cup.
You swallow it like wounded pride, so hungrily you suck it up.

Though it’s only 10 am her hand’s around a half gone bottle of Tangueray Gin.
Some how it seems to ease the pain, the day the planes
brought down the towers on that September morning --
that’s where it began.
She still hears the crying through the haze
And she sits there in a daze because she’ll always know
some of her faith is gone.

And there’ s a hobo in an alleyway, asleep beneath the front page news.
Target of the pouring rain, wearing someone else’s worn out shoes
And hope is what is left inside some kid’s discarded Dixie Cup.
You swallow it like wounded pride, so hungrily you suck it up.

For 60 years right by his side from the day she said she’d be his bride
To the day they put her in the ground
And he knows that she won’t be around.
Sometimes it makes him want to cry.
Somehow he knows that he’ll go on
But the days and nights are long when the only one you’ve loved
Forever will be gone.

Here’s --- to the walking wounded.

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from Songs On Purpose, released November 15, 2016

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Jane Fallon Dunedin, Florida

Award winning songwriter whose literate lyrics are set to melodies in genres that include blues, country, western, fok and pop. Her voice has been called “smooth and mesmerizing” and Indie Music Magazine called her “powerful, inspirational, uplifting, delightful, and impressive . . . one of the good artists in a sea of soulless clutter.” ... more

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