Album: Dochas - Hope
I did it for my country,
And for my family.
I stood my ground against the crown
For Eire untied and free.
I know the cost of freedom;
I've paid the price of war.
I've fought and bled, left others dead
To even out the score.
Memories and history
Charge through me like a flood;
Struggles lost and won were all
Meted out with blood.
I stood upon the shoulders
Of MacCool, O'Neill and Pearce;
Living life in the Troubles
As they lived life in theirs.
Chorus:
My heart is still a harbor
Of the wilderness of war;
There's safety in the shadows
Of how I lived before.
I never questioned orders,
Or asked the reasons why.
I justified the truth I made;
I justified a lie.
Cease-fire on the evening news,
And I think that time will show
There's more than peace that matters
When you're living on the dole.
Where dreams they come, the nightmares
Of glory and of shame,
Of course and means and comrades
Devoured by the flame.
Thought they struggle round me -
Surrounded by a storm
Of those who've gone before me,
And those who'll carry on.
It was all so clear for moments
Before the rain set in;
A drowning man, a patriot.
Is it honor or is it sin?
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