[00:09.894]Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
[00:14.441]This poem that I wrote for you
[00:18.561]This black stone and these hard tears
[00:23.669]Are all I got left now of you
[00:29.042]I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing
[00:33.448]Laughing at your ship out party
[00:36.735]I read Robert McNamara says he's sorry
[00:41.771]Your high boots and striped T-shirt
[00:46.734]Oh Billy you looked so bad
[00:52.312]You and your rock-n-roll band
[00:56.637]You were the best thing this **** town ever had
[01:02.249]Now the men who put you here
[01:03.883]Eat with their families in rich dining halls
[01:10.066]And apology and forgiveness
[01:12.434]Got no place here at all
[01:17.636]Here at the wall
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[01:58.091]I'm sorry I missed you last year
[02:02.433]I couldn't find no one to drive me
[02:07.545]If your eyes could cut through that black stone
[02:12.956]Tell me would they recognize me
[02:17.947]For the living time it must be served,
[02:22.548]The day goes on
[02:26.041]Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
[02:30.351]Skin on black stone
[02:35.304]On the ground dog tags and wreaths of flowers
[02:41.579]With the ribbons red as the blood
[02:46.467]Red as the blood you spilled
[02:51.252]In the Central Highlands mud
[02:56.856]Limousines rush down Pennsylvania Avenue
[03:00.085]Rustling the leaves as they fall
[03:04.952]And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all
[03:11.977]Here at the wall
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