My Lai
2012 · Not On Label · USA
- Artist
- Tom Flannery
- Title
- My Lai
- Release
- Love and Streets
- Year
- 2012
- Label
- Not On Label
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Tom Flannery
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Singer Songwriter
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
- My Lai (Flannery, Tom) - Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. - Singer/songwriter
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I've gone 60 but feel much older now, youth passes like a novel's page / I watched my buddies dying, and my heart turned stone with rage / War makes sinning easy, and with orders you must comply / So I became just what they wanted, on that morning in My Lai / Came home to a farm that looked different, from when I left to go to war / The drought had left it only brown, where there'd been green before / So I took my medals and struck out, and went searching for a home / And the faces all came with me, like a greaser and his comb / My Lai My Lai My Lai My Lai.... / I looked up some boys who came back / But it all seemed different now, all we knew to talk about was to ask each other how.... / I've buried wives and children / And memories in the ground....would things have turned out different / If I never went to war?.... / Preacher says my soul's on fire / And only God can douse the flame, but I remember when I did my killing / That I did it in his name.... / I'm too old for forgiveness / Can't undo what I've done.... / I remember the little children and the women who held them tight / And the smoke rising from the village / That turned morning into night / My eyes just rolled back in my head / And with all that that implies / I too was KIA.... / That morning in My Lai
About the artist
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Themes
My Lai · Anti-Calley · Vet