Mark Adam Bennett - One Thing (DEMO)

He asked, he asked for the war
"Sign me up, sign me up for the Corps"
He said, "I will fight, fight with my rifle
Fight with my brothers, on beaches and shores
On beaches and shores"

He said "Momma, let me at 'em
I'll make it somehow"
He said "Momma, let me at 'em, Guadalcanal
Give me Midway, and air raids
And fire fights, and oh I'll make it out
I will make it out"

"See, this town, this town ain't for me
But her tall pines and her coal mines
They shall remain free
They shall remain free"

Oh but the one thing
One thing that he didn't ask for
Oh in all that, all that he grew up too fast for
Is that boys, boys on a beach landing craft
They become something else, fast
They become something else, fast
Ain't it the one thing

See he asked, he asked for the hell
For those bombs, bombs as they fell
And he made it, made it down every burnt beach
Through bullets and shells

And he made it, made home safe
All but his head, all but his head, they say
The memories, got in the way
Got in the way

You see, one thing
One thing that he didn't ask for
Oh in all that, all that he grew up too fast for
Is the shadows, shadows that follow you back
And the spell, and the spell,
That they cast, the spell that they cast

Ain't it the one thing
Always that one thing
Ain't it the one thing
It's always that one thing

Still, he asked, he asked for the world
He said, "Come on, fellas lets go find me a girl
Give me a new life, give me a young wife
Give me love, give me love and a child to adore
Love and a child to adore, oh come on"

But the one thing, one thing that he didn't ask for
Oh in all that, a truck on that curve to fast for it
Down the highway, Hwy 22 West down to Ratcliff
He never, he never got past it
He never, he never got past it

Ain't it the one thing
Always that one thing
Damn that one thing
Always that one thing

Written by:
Mark Bennett

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