| Among the swollen candles and evening prayers,
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| Among war trophies and peaceful bonfires
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| Lived book children who did not know the battles,
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| Weary from their childhood disasters.
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| Children are always annoyed
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| Their age and lifestyle
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| And we fought to the bruises,
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| To mortal insults
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| But the clothes were patched
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| We mothers on time -
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| We ate books
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| Drunk on the lines
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| Hair stuck to our sweaty foreheads,
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| And sucked sweetly from phrases in the spoon,
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| And the smell of struggle circled our heads,
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| From the yellowed pages flying down to us.
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| And tried to understand
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| We, who did not know wars,
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| For the war cry
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| Those who received the howl
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| The secret of the word "order",
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| setting boundaries,
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| Meaning of attack and clang
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| War chariots.
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| And in the boiling fires of the old slaughterhouses and troubles
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| So much food for our little brains!
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| We are on the role of traitors, cowards, Judas
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| In children's games, they appointed their enemies.
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| And the villain's footsteps
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| Didn't let it cool
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| And the most beautiful ladies
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| They promised to love
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| And reassuring friends
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| And loving your neighbors
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| We are the heroes
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| They introduced themselves.
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| Only in dreams you can’t run away for good:
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| A short age of fun - so much pain around!
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| Try to open the palms of the dead
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| And take weapons from hard-working hands.
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| Experience it by taking possession
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| Another warm sword
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| And wearing armor,
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| What's up, what's up!
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| Find out who you are: a coward
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| Or the chosen one of fate -
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| And taste it
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| Real fight.
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| And when a wounded friend collapses nearby
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| And over the first loss you will howl, grieving,
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| And when you suddenly remain without skin
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| Because they killed him - not you,
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| You will understand what you have learned
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| Distinguished, found
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| He took it on a grin -
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| This is the grin of death!
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| Lies and evil - look
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| How their faces are rough
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| And always behind
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| Crows and coffins!
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| If the meat from the knife
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| You haven't eaten a single piece
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| If hands are folded
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| Watched from above
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| And did not join the fight
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| With a scoundrel, with an executioner, -
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| So in life you were
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| Nothing, nothing! |