Name: The Elephant
Duration: P00H05M25S
Description: Autumn 1864. War is all hell.

The Elephant

by Wicked Spring

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Autumn 1864. War is all hell.

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The chemistry of my body has completely re-arranged
I float above the fire and the moonlit splintered trees.
Up in the sky a planet is glowing red
The land has no consciousness so destroy where it's people live.

We will never be the same. How could we ever be ?

Hope has been blown to bits, you got your life but you lost your limbs.
Made friends that mustered out, seen the elephant and heard the owl. Quickstep boys take that hill. If they don't kill you, dysentery will. You've seen the elephant.

All hell has come by the hand of human kind. Pillage every home, kill livestock we won't eat. Juxtapose the country with the stillness of it's ground. Every man with a beating heart may kill so his family lives.

The ceremony begins just past 3am. Celebrate in the wreckage of a rich family's plantation den. A hot October in Georgia on a march to the heavy sea. Beside ghosts of the many soldiers who float along the trees.

We will never be the same. How could we ever be ?

Hope has been blown to bits, you got your life but you lost your limbs.
Made friends that mustered out, seen the elephant and heard the owl. Quickstep boys take that hill. If they don't kill you, dysentery will. You've seen the elephant.

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released October 27, 2018
Michael Brown-keyboards
Troy Wolf-drums
Rory Landt-bass
Kenneth Brown-guitar, vocals

Recorded by Rory Landt
Mixed and mastered by Randy Garcia
Song and lyrics written by Kenneth Brown

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