Blinding Flashes

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The Rumjacks are a punk rock/celtic folk band from Sydney, Australia. more »

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The lifeless body of hero lay in silence
Face down in the dirt of the land that his fathers sewed 
So unceremonious and callous
In a ditch of a shed on a dusty desert road 

Ira spoke the proud tongue of the Pima
Yet he stood to fight when the bombs fell on his shores. 
Cut his teeth on the isle of Iwo Jima
And the fame that he gained only filled him with remorse 

He'd say the lights and flashes all are just a show 
He'd say the real ones don't live to see another 
And when the day is done you'll see the afterglow 
Until it dulls and fades away 

Survivor's guilt in the spotlight of the nation 
would quickly drive the most pious men to drink 
And when the papers cite your every altercation 
You're an outcast on raft that's built to sink 

He'd say the lights and flashes all are just a show 
He'd say the real ones don't live to see another 
And when the day is done you'll see the afterglow 
Until it dulls 

And he was outcast
He was defamed
He was hated, he was loved, he was a symbol
He was a hero to his kind, he was a leader to the blind 
And he was praised
He was Ira Hayes

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