Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Wall, artist - Bruce Springsteen. Date of issue: 13.01.2014
Song language: English
The Wall |
| Cigarettes and a bottle of beer, this poem that I wrote for you |
| This black stone and these hard tears are all I got left now of you |
| I remember you in your Marine uniform laughin', laughin' at your ship out party |
| I read Robert McNamara says he’s sorry |
| Your high boots and striped T-shirt, Billy you looked so bad |
| You and your rock-n-roll band, you were best thing this shit town ever had |
| Now the men who put you here eat with their families in rich dining halls |
| And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all at the wall |
| I’m sorry I missed you last year, I couldn’t find no one to drive me |
| If your eyes could cut through that black stone, tell me would they recognize me |
| For the living time it must be served, the day goes on |
| Cigarettes and a bottle of beer, skin on black stone |
| On the ground dog tags and wreaths of flowers, with ribbons red as the blood |
| Red as the blood you spilled in the Central Highlands mud |
| Limousines rush down Pennsylvania Avenue, rustling the leaves as they fall |
| And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all |
| Here at the wall |