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Cavalry

from Monuments by Balto

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I stalled in recalling

The way I lived before
I went away and sparked the Winter War

Some brightness, once lightness
Now sits heavy beneath my ribs
Collects the weight of everything I did

Oh but I had me a cause
A good cause I thought

The Bleeding drum beating
Its time under my skin
The cavalry goes riding out again

Then lost and exhausted
In that desert in my head
I put my lips to water, tasted sand

Oh but I had me a cause
A good cause I thought

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So if you see me start retreating
See the shadow cross my eyes
I’m gonna place a bet on wine, I'm gonna take my own advice
And if I’m lucky I can see your lantern shine

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I came back to find that
The truth I knew as sure
Doesn't seem so certain anymore

The past lies in fragments
that slip out of my dreams
And follow me down all these crooked streets

I Guess I’m haunted and lost
chalk up a loss

Now I’m Given, a vision
That I’m not sure I can trust
Of a woman throwing her dice down in the dust

And a house made of mortar
And I wish this house my home
To hang it up and burn my uniform

But what is the cost
when I give up the cause

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from Monuments, released September 18, 2012

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