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Title: Homecoming King
Post by: amberbeads on October 20, 2004, 07:27:51 am

My brother's coming home today
The first time in a year
He speaks with words he just can't say
The things we don't want to hear
My sister's first real boyfriend
He took the trip there, too
And came back here last weekend
In a wooden box, he flew

The flight across the ocean
Has air too thick with dread
But the flight upward to Heaven
Is a journey left unsaid

I write you letters every day
Without any replies
And every night I even pray
For an answer full of lies
I hate the world and everyone
Who pulled you far from me
Amidst the pulsing of the guns
And bathed in agony

The flight across the ocean
Has air too thick with dread
But the flight upward to Heaven
Is a journey left unsaid

I see your friends on CNN
I see you dressed in green
And running like a hero
Up on the silver screen
You're on my mind and in my dreams
And when I see it in my head at night
I can't ignore the screams
Now acid rain changes to a deeper shade of crimson
And bandages around our scars begin to come undone
We're children of a selfish world
Innocent young boys and girls

You came home last Monday night
Suddenly a man
And though you say that you're alright
You're far too numb to even wash the blood off of your hands
And you never want to look at me
You never want to smile
With sunken eyes you just retreat
And stay there for awhile
And it's scarlet tears I cry
When those words become our last
With a string around my finger tied
To hold on to the past

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: clamicas on October 20, 2004, 12:56:38 pm

xtremely sad and harsh but beeeaautiful :wink:

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: Tia on October 20, 2004, 01:03:56 pm

Amazing.

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: amberbeads on October 20, 2004, 02:42:01 pm

Thanks guys :D
I wrote it after I watched "We Were Soldiers;" I had never really thought much about war (particularly in Iraq) until now. I know it's sad, and it is sad, but that's what happens :cry:
You should see "The Best Years of Our Lives." It's about these three guys who came back from WWI and they had changed, a LOT. An excellent movie.

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: Chloe on October 20, 2004, 02:53:52 pm

reminds me of my mom and her brother when he came home from Iraq... AWESOME work.

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: amberbeads on October 20, 2004, 02:57:34 pm

Oh wow... Thank you :)

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: LimeTwister on October 20, 2004, 04:42:05 pm

omg, I am speechless (in a good way)...

"He took the trip there, too
And came back here last weekend
In a wooden box, he flew "

wow...

*will comment when he can form words to describe the immense power that has*

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: jlmusicchick on October 20, 2004, 04:49:40 pm

that's awesome nat! that's going to be used as one of the many away  messages i plan on using on election day

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: amberbeads on October 20, 2004, 05:27:30 pm

omg thanks guys... I was really hit hard by that movie... I'm so proud of this one, thanks for the compliments!! 8O

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: Mountaineer on October 21, 2004, 12:40:20 pm

BRAVOOOOOOO!!!!!

AMAZING!!!!! WOW!!!!!!! we want audio! :D  :D  :D

sorry i took so long lol. Im blown away. Amazing

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: amberbeads on October 21, 2004, 12:49:17 pm

Audio? Good Lord, we'll see how that goes. It's sort of halfway-ish got music now.

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: Mountaineer on October 21, 2004, 02:12:06 pm

come on! dont matter!

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: Layla on October 23, 2004, 11:59:54 am

Quote from: "Bee"

come on! dont matter!

*agrees*  :D

it's fantabulous, bravo!

Title: Homecoming King
Post by: whitehouses81680 on November 05, 2005, 07:46:51 pm

can i have your autograph?!