The Day The Sun Stood Still
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We were young and bound for glory
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Itchin' for a fight like you
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Bringin' hell and purgatory
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To the boys who wore the blue
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And I thought I'd seen it all
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Till the day night wouldn't fall
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Oh, how the sun did blaze
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Wouldn't go down for days
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I got shot and lost my rifle
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When the first wave hit the rise
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And the guns rolled out like thunder
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And the black smoke burned my eyes
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And I watched it all unfold
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Just the way the Bible told
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Joshua's endless day
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Keepin' the night at bay
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And the soldiers kept a comin'
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Til the ground looked like a sea
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Of blue and grey
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And I watched it from a distance
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Wonderin' if I would've fought or run away
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The day the sun stood still
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How they beat the bloody drums
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And the seconds moved like hours
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But the sunset never comes
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And the cannons shake the ground
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And the bullets test your will
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Even shadows found no cover
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On that Godforsaken hill
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The day the sun stood still
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And I watched them lean their shoulders
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To the fearful hail of lead
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And I prayed for night to save us
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And I cried and bowed my head
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Bt the sun just kept a-creepin'
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'Cross a cold indifferent sky
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Castin' a deadly glow
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On all the men below
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All the hours in a lifetime
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Don't add up to one while minute in that sun
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And the heroes and the cowards
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Look the same when they have fallen by the gun
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The day the sun stood still
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And the north and south looked west
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But the evening star was sleeping
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And the daylight wouldn't rest
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Out on the killing floor
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The red sun on the the hill
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Shinin' down on all the dead men
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With a strange and eerie chill
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The day the sun stood still
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Do not judge what you brother does
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Till you've walked a mile
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Rank by bloody file
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Who's to say if you'll run or stay and fight?
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The day the sun stood still
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Is just beneath the skin
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In the soul of every soldier
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Every battle that he's in
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The day the sun stood still
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Will haunt your dreams at night
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And stalk your every sunrise
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Though you will not know it till
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Repeat Chorus
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The day The Sun Stood Still
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Travis Tritt |