Like a Soldier

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1. With the twilight colors falling and the evening laying shadows
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    hidden memories come stealing from my mind.

    And I feel my own heart beating out the simple joy of living,
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     and I wonder how I ever was that kind.

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2. But the wild road I was rambling was always out there calling,
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    and you said a hundred times I should have died.

    Then you reached down and touched me and lifted me up with you,
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    so I believe that was the road that I was meant to ride.

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I'm like a soldier getting over the war,
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I'm like a young man getting over his crazy days.
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Like a bandit getting over his        lawless ways,
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 I don't have to do that any more,
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I'm like a soldier getting over the war.

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3. There were nights I don't remember and pain that's been forgotten,
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    and a lot of things I choose not to recall.

    There are faces that come to me in my darkest secret memory,
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    faces that I wish would not come back at all.

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4. But in my dreams parade of lovers from the other times and places,
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    there's not one that matters now, no matter who.

    I'm just thankful for the journey and that I've survived the battles,
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    and that my spoils of victory is you.

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I'm like a soldier getting over the war,
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I'm like a young man getting over his crazy days.
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Like a bandit getting over his       lawless ways,
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every day gets better than the day before,
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I'm like a soldier getting over the war