[Verse 1]
Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
This poem that I wrote for you
This black stone and these hard tears
Are all I got left now of you
I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing
Laughing at your ship-out party
I read Robert McNamara says he's sorry
[Verse 2]
Your high boots and striped t-shirt
Ah, Billy, you looked so bad
Yeah, you and your rock-n-roll band
You were best thing this shit town ever had
Now the men who put you here
Eat with their families in rich dining halls
And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all
At the wall
[Verse 3]
But I'm sorry I missed you last year
Couldn't find no one to drive me
If your eyes could cut through that black stone
Tell me would they recognize me?
For the living, time, it must be served
The day goes on
Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
Skin on black stone
Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
This poem that I wrote for you
This black stone and these hard tears
Are all I got left now of you
I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing
Laughing at your ship-out party
I read Robert McNamara says he's sorry
[Verse 2]
Your high boots and striped t-shirt
Ah, Billy, you looked so bad
Yeah, you and your rock-n-roll band
You were best thing this shit town ever had
Now the men who put you here
Eat with their families in rich dining halls
And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all
At the wall
[Verse 3]
But I'm sorry I missed you last year
Couldn't find no one to drive me
If your eyes could cut through that black stone
Tell me would they recognize me?
For the living, time, it must be served
The day goes on
Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
Skin on black stone
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