Gettysburg

Fall in, I hear the cries
 Behind your waking eyes
 They're calling, the fear it dies
 And tells the sun to rise
 Oh, tells the sun to rise
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 To rise, called by the skies to the line
 To rise, moment to shine or resign
 I look out, the sea of smoke
 Feel the darkness come in waves
 Eastern hills and eastern haze
 I hear shouts, the smell that chokes
 Splintered doorways, wintered graves
 All that's kneaded for the brave
 Shall I close my eyes?
 A shell, I close my eyes
 My eyes, fought to align your mind
 My eyes, caught from behind by the blind
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 Now I stand upon this old ground
 The stones recall my stubborn sound
 All the echoes of another round
 Still call as if to say you're found
 Fight was won, the future still lost
 Reduced to flashes in the frost
 All I am and all I've come across
 Is nothing set beside the cost
 Now the days are long as you're gone
 The nights, forlorn as I was wrong
 Trees still sway, the birds sing love songs
 To mock my sorrow as I long
 All these others wander without care
 I'm caught, engaged in my despair
 Tasked to seek, in empty summer air
 A love that time can never spare