City Gates

from Untitled by Ryan Joseph Rossner

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Told us give up our guns who would join the band
But you know just what they say about the best laid plans
You hew to the middle, you do what you can
Southern born, but if I die it's as a Union man

"Inclosed is a bone ring." The horrors are hard to believe.
I cut haversacks off the dead, but then I took my leave.
Whiskey held sway for so many days
I'm surprised that I'm alive and can walk away.

Walk me through those city gates
White flags flying plain
I never did see your face
But I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again

When it comes you'll know it's real
Whole soul just torn to rags, blown across a field
You could multiply the man by seven a shadow to make
What the war doesn't kill, Andersonville can still break

Walk me thorugh those ciity gates
White flags flying plain
When I finally see your face
'Cause I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again
I know we will meet again

Could I but annihilate space and time
Travel home o'er charred bones, rejoin you in our native clime
Life's stern duty keeps alive the will
The will to live, and, God forbid, the will to kill

Walk me through those city gates
White flags in the rain
When I finally see your face
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again
I will never fail to be with you again

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from Untitled, released July 21, 2013
Many of the lyrics to this song were taken directly from, adapted from, or inspired by the letters of Civil War soldiers collected in Robert Bonner's book The Soldier's Pen.

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