Onward Chariots

War Hero

Album: Save Me Maryann [2010]
Author: Ben Marss © Elefant Publishing

In the distance there is thunder

As you come down out of the clouds

Four long years I have been waiting

The sky is dark but there is light

The rushing fills my ears

The wind, it carries away tears

Now the world is filled by the sound as you come

 

Every day you lived with danger

It was your friend, like a warm bath

Back at home, I darned my stockings

Watched Mickey Mouse, saved chicken fat

While you were killing men, I planted a Victory Garden

Now the world is filled by the sound as you come

 

Oh, faith is all you have when you lead a love by letters

Is it everything you need?

If love is all you have, and love is all you need

Then why are all us people living lives of misery?

 

Every day in things around me

I could catch hints that you were there

Something in the crowded places

Flash of a voice, shine of a hair

I hope you still love me

I wonder what I will see

Now at least the veils are falling away

 

I met men every day

And they all had things to offer

And they thought they could fill my needs

But you are my hero

I hold your memory

A rope that I grab on to when I fear I’m falling free

 

Oh, you are my war hero

You rise above the crowd

A note of peace when everything is loud

You’re everything I hoped for

The light that fills my sky

And you put the tears here in my eye