ExCoelis

I felt cold, almost frost bitten. Someone, somewhere must be looking for me, I have been lost for days inside of my own mind, my own insanity. I didn't know if it had been 5 days or 8 weeks, but the one thing I do remember was stretching my arm out to touch my girlfriend's hand as she sat at the kitchen table only to have reality break through an unknown number of layered days of darkness and sleep deprivation. My vision cleared, and as I feared as a younger soldier, I was laying on a stretcher covered in blood being rushed into the Light Armoured Vehichle, passing on my Danish decendency onto Corporal Eric Dawe's combat jacket. "There's not

Before I checked the time I gracefully ate a lime We pulled into harbour I called up a barber He brought a newspaper to read In his daughter, I planted a seed Her eyes glow with a radiant blue If you knew her, you would too It’s a pirate’s life for me Travelling around from sea to sea I’m no British Sailor I’ve got some gold I should mail’er I’ve got a new suit that’s been made Into the sunset, our ship will fade Oh my, that beautiful woman she will cry I boldly adjust my tie Forgive me love, keep the child The weather tonight, is quite mild Before you know it I’ll be home And never a

Hear the old Sergeant hacking Around our lips, skin is cracking Our trigger fingers frozen in place Sleeping in this vile place Quickly moving through mud, sand, and snow at a hostile pace We are the Guard Nobody fights this hard Boys no longer, they call us men Can't be held in our pen Crying mothers and proud fathers Sound of piercing guns Pain of bleeding sons Brothers in hell Followers will tell Tales of the brave Trails we will pave We are coming home We don't know when I'll write you letters until then