In the summer of ’63
The union came callin’ for me
Just seventeen, young and dumb
How soon destiny’d come
Rifle in hand at gettysburg
Shells were flyin’, i lost my nerve
I ran blind, bleedin’ and scared
The universe didn’t seem to care
If i lived or if i died
Hid in a holler, cried and cried
Crawled away when the moon rose high
Navigated by the stars in the sky
Couldn’t go home to face my friends
The life i’d known had come to an end
Just kept wanderin’, lonely and dazed
Wrapped up in a demonic maze
The world
Flatly indifferent
To me
And whatever my fate
If i should die
No one would notice
Should i live
I had nothin’ to give
Found myself in michigan
Starin’ at an ocean of lake
Heard some church bells peal
In honor of a soldier’s wake
My eyes sunken, my body gaunt
A sliver of a man is all i was
Had no reason to give a care
Looked to the sky but it was bare
Kept headin’ north for no reason at all
Winter came after frigid fall
Found a cabin, deserted and gray
On a moody december day
Now eighteen, i should be a man
But i wasn’t other than
By the lie told by the calendar
My thoughts were jumbled, spun up in a blur
Drifting
At the edge of the earth
A life
That matters not at all
The world
Could swallow me down
My life
Surely not my own
Got an axe, started choppin’ wood
For no better reason than to clear my head
Fired a dozen shots at gettysburg
Wondered if ’cause of me a man was dead
Now i don’t know all i carry inside
But the weight on my shoulders if a man has died
Because i shot a bullet that found its mark
Put a young man in a grave so dark
What right’s a boy have to determine fate?
Even if the cause is great
A cryin’ young wife, an orphan lad
I changed their lives with the power i had
The cords of wood were pilin’ up
Sold some for a little cash
The cabin eventually seemed like mine
That summer i shaved for the very first time
On loan
From the universe
I am
A wounded man
Choppin’ wood
That no one would notice
My life
Had nothin’ to give
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