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Uncertain

from Flag of the Shiners by State Radio

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Heavy from walking
We stopped for the night
Lettin' the shallow river
unnerve our fright
But night fell on us before dawn
'Till all of our hope was all but gone

If every man lay down his gun
We would no longer be

'Cause your war is your sickness
And so it's our disease

Oh distant constant quarrelling lot
Your risk is greater than what you've got
Up in your highroom
You drag us along, the long road
Of our brothers gone

We didn't fight back
We fought to escape
Smuggling gasoline for food
Before we were of age

'Cause your war is your sickness
And so it's our disease

Oh distant constant quarrelling lot
Your risk is greater than what you've got
Up in your highroom
You carry us along, the long road
Of our brothers gone

'Cause we are so uncertain
Of the future, that we may face
And we don't like the burning
Up of everything we had in place
Some day we will be replaced by the guns of the sons and their fatherless rage
And we are not deserting
But we see no course to take

No like a curtain falls
And heralds the curtain calls
Comrad come alike
Time is no ally
Little one are you in or out
So quiet and so devout
Can you resign yourself
To accept a better hell
We'll not fall in their curse
Facing life in prison or possibly worse
Our fathers are calling mass
Asking us to drink from the pain of their past life

Oh distant constant quarrelling lot
Your risk is greater than what you've got
Up in your highroom
You carry us along, the long road
Of our brothers gone

'Cause we are so uncertain
Of the future, that we may face
And we don't like the burning
Of everything we had in place
Someday we will be replaced by the guns of the sons and their fatherless rage
And we are not deserting
But we see no course to take

In the riot of your machine gun ways

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from Flag of the Shiners, released November 5, 2002

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