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The Soldiering Life

from Her Majesty The Decemberists by The Decemberists

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lyrics

Ambling madly all over the town
The arbor wall you likened to a whisper
I likened to a radio.

You were a brickbat, a bowery tough,
So rough they culled you from a cartoon.
Pulled out of your pantaloons.

But you, my brother in arms,
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs than let you come to harm.
But you, my bombazine doll
The bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall.
But I have never felt so alive
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battlefield.
Our rifles blaze away.
We blaze away.

Corporal Bradley of regiment five
In proud array, standing by the bathing
Soldiers and the stevedores.

But you, my brother in arms,
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs than let you come to harm.
But you, my bombazine doll
The bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall.
But I have never felt so alive
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battlefield.
Our rifles blaze away.
We blaze away.
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies
Cradled in our dungarees.

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from Her Majesty The Decemberists, released September 9, 2003

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