Candy

Candy took me down
 Candy took me down
 Down to her cellar
 Down to her cellar
 We sat in candle light
 Drinking her father's wine
 Sheltered in darkness
 Cold earth around us
 That's when the union came
 In veils of stormy rain
 We talked about her pa
 How she watched him in awe
 Preachin' the gospel
 She was delightful
 We heard the thunder fall
 Damn near break down these walls
 The bottles ringin'
 Us two just sittin'
 Outside, the cannonballs
 Came screamin' through the squall
 She took to cryin' then
 And I watched the candle dim
 And curl and shudder
 Afraid to touch her
 And as the flame went dead
 Dear God, I felt her head
 Rest tired upon me
 Just breathin' softly
 Outside, the city burned
 Lord, it was hell on Earth
 As darkness swept aside
 That breathless candlelight
 I felt her breathin'
 And I started singin'
 Soldiers, they will come, and soldiers, they will go
 The war may lay the lot of us in rows of granite stone
 And if I join the cavalry and perish far from home
 A life as sweet as candy I may never live to know
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 The cities they will burn and families will crack
 The hate that drove us from our homes will drag the living back
 And limping from the darkness with our hatred in our tracks
 A long and lonely shadow that can never be undone
 But Candy is asleep
 In darkness and in peace
 And my heart fills the silence
 With its happy little