Lyrics Dress Blues.lrc Jason Isbell
[id: ajccokbe]
[ar: Jason Isbell]
[al: Sirens of the Ditch]
[ti: Dress Blues]
[length: 04:12]
[00:12.27]What can you see from your window?
[00:17.59]I can’t see anything from mine
[00:23.13]Flags on the side of the highway
[00:28.13]And scripture on grocery store signs
[00:33.98]Maybe 18 was to early
[00:38.76]Maybe 30 or 40 is too
[00:44.92]Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
[00:49.67]Before he sent down his angels for you?
[00:55.82]Mamas and grandmamas love you
[01:01.36]’Cause that’s all they know how to do
[01:06.80]But you never planned on the bombs in the sand
[01:11.77]Or sleeping in your dress blues
[01:18.63]
[01:28.53]Your wife said this all would be funny
[01:34.06]When you got back home in a week
[01:39.56]You’d turn 22 and we’d celebrate you
[01:44.11]In a bar or a tent by the creek
[01:50.29]Your baby would just about be here
[01:55.53]And your very last tour would be up
[02:01.42]But you won’t be back, they’re all dressing in black
[02:06.27]Drinking sweet tea in a styrofoam cups
[02:12.32]Mamas and grandmamas love you
[02:17.73]American boys hate to lose
[02:23.15]But you never planned on the bombs in the sand
[02:27.93]Or sleeping in your dress blues
[02:34.61]
[02:44.89]The high school gymnasium’s ready
[02:49.89]Full of flowers and old legionnaires
[02:55.89]Nobody showed up to protest
[03:00.66]Just sniffle and stare
[03:06.36]There’s red, white, and blue in the rafters
[03:11.63]And there’s silent old men from the corps
[03:17.84]What did they say when they shipped you away
[03:22.34]To fight somebody’s Hollywood war?
[03:28.42]And nobody here could forget you
[03:33.87]You showed us what we had to lose
[03:39.18]And you never planned on the bombs in the sand
[03:44.40]Or sleeping in your dress blues
[03:50.34]You never planned on the bombs in the sand
[03:55.40]Or sleeping in your dress blues
[03:59.12]Year of Release: 2007