Letters from the Earth - Ben Bedford

Sitting restless under the moonlight I know I'm getting ready to kill They say we're going in with the daylight I don't want to but I will Cause I won't know the man that kills me And I don't know these man I kill I pray to God for my salvation Wash away the blood I spill I try not to think about my family Cause it's a little too much take Now here I got me and I got my buddy Who can't afford even one mistake I'm sorry about writing on dirty cardboard It's the only paper I can find Tell everyone I got their letters Tell everyone I'm doing fine Late at night when I can dream I I think about life back in the world I miss you and Dad I miss sister Sarah I Miss my wife and baby girl Pray for me pray for my soul ma Pray for me and all my sins They say I got a job to do now And I'll be back when it finally ends Do you think I should be fighting? Mom are you proud are you ashamed I really am trying to do the right thing I hope my government can say the same Cause I won't know the man that kills me And I don't know these man that I kill Cause not one of us doing god's will

She walked to the mailbox On that bright summers day Found a letter from her son In a war, far away He spoke of the weather And good friends that he'd made Said, " I'd been thinking 'bout dad And the life that he had that's why, I'm here today" And then in the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for" It was the first of his letters from war She started writing You're good and you're brave What a father that you'll be someday Make it home, make it safe She wrote every night as she prayed Late in December A day, she'll not forget Oh, her tears stained the paper With every word that she read It said, "I was up on a hill, I was out there alone When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding That's when I saw him, he came back for me And though he was captured a man set me free And that man was your son, he asked me to write to you I told him, I would, Oh, I swore" It was the last of the letters from war And she prayed, he was living, kept on believing And wrote every night just to say You are good and you're brave What a father that you'll be someday Make it home, make it safe Still she kept writing each day Then two years later Autumn leaves, all around A car pulled in the driveway And she fell to the ground And out stepped a captain Where her boy used to stand He said, "Mom, I'm followin' orders From all of your letters and I've come home again" He ran into hold her, dropped all his bags on the floor Holdin' all of her letters from war Bring him home Bring him home Bring him home

He says it's the chance of a lifetime Now, you listen to me I don't want any plastics And I don't want any ground floors And I don't want to get married, ever, to anyone You understand that? I want to do what I want to do And you're And you're