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Of Lives Lived and Died

from Beneath the Surface by Hawker Roam

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We landed at Betio, Tarawa atoll
In the Fighting Second, but the third wave in on our Higgins Boat
The coxswain was a coward, and wouldn’t let us in
Till his forehead met the pistol of Bulldog Harrington

I soon found myself beside a pier, bullets blazing by
Bodies of my brothers, floating the tide
Wounded taking shelter beneath the pilings underneath
As I watched the Corpsman and the doctor, give the men relief

And all too familiar, but once not at all
Overwhelmed by the odor of a realized befall
Decay on the beach front, a gross mockery
Of lives lived and died so you and I and others can be free

A mortar shell that landed, between me and another man
Upon this pier it took his life without the comfort of Gods hand
I saw a banty rooster cluck as though, just another day
I guess you have to lose a life or limb, to earn a soldiers pay

My dungaree discarded to do a Quartermasters job
White shirt shining in the moonlit night, but saved by the grace of God
Snipers shooting at me from Amtraks broken on the sand
As I directed the unloading of new supplies and nervous men

And all too familiar, but once not at all
Overwhelmed by the odor of a realized befall
Decay on the beach front, a gross mockery
Of lives lived and died so you and I and others can be free

I towards the sound of the bugle playing To The Color
As I watched them raise Ol’ Glory I saluted to my fallen brothers
I couldn’t help but think of home, and all the loved ones left behind
And all the gravestones on those grassy fields, where courage never dies

And all too familiar, but once not at all
Overwhelmed by the odor of a realized befall
Decay on the beach front, a gross mockery
Of lives lived and died so you and I and others can be free

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from Beneath the Surface, released April 6, 2018

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Hawker Roam Salt Lake City, Utah

Hawker Roam is a Progressive Rock band from Salt Lake City, mixing elements of 70's Psychedelic Rock, with hard rock riffs, and Post-Rock influences.

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