MATTHEW GOOD - A Silent Army In The Trees lyrics

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What will you find, where will you be<br>

When you gotta trade for company<br>

Those plastic guns and infantry<br>

For a silent army in the trees<br>

Well this ain't the woods behind the house<br>

There ain't nobody screaming out<br>

For you to come inside and eat<br>

You're just holding your friends and watching them bleed<br>

Wore camouflage on Halloween<br>

A plastic bag and M-16<br>

Door to door and house to house<br>

But ain't nobody handing it out<br>

Ya nothing's ever what it seems<br>

When you're kicking in teeth and wishing it dreams<br>

Just plastic guns and infantry<br>

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Now baby don't you let me down<br>

A world away and still somehow<br>

Can't shake the feeling that you're out<br>

With another man's arms wrapped tight around you<br>

At night it's cold, we sit and freeze<br>

Running 'red lights' in our Humvees<br>

Never thought I live to see the day I'd be<br>

Afraid of little kids playing in the streets<br>

Well this ain't the woods behind the house<br>

There ain't nobody screaming out<br>

For you to come inside and eat<br>

You're just holding your friends and watching them bleed<br>

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I'm on fire<br>

But all ice on the outside<br>

That old man in the sky<br>

Well he's all ice on the outside<br>

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A muted whale out in the streets<br>

You watch the stage but burn the seats<br>

Two metal legs to get along<br>

You ain't got much without one to stand on<br>

Sometimes at night I hear it roll<br>

A hundred cars long pulling out slow<br>

Like the engineer's inside my head<br>

Cold and dark like your side of the bed<br>

Ya nothing's ever what it seems<br>

And even if it is ends justify means<br>

With plastic guns and infantry<br>

For a silent army in the trees<br>

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I'm on fire<br>

But all ice on the outside<br>

That old man in the sky<br>

Well he's all ice on the outside<br>

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<i>[Thanks to Gill (g_blundon@hotmail.com) for these lyrics]</i><br>

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