Well, I’ll tell you

Life ain’t been no peaceful dawn

It’s had loss in it

And bloodshed

And sacrifices made

And times the earth feels cold-

Empty

But all the time I think about the dead

And the living

And what I learned from them

And sometimes what we did to get here, to survive

Where home has come and gone

So take happiness wherever you can get it, don’t you feel sorry about it

Don’t you let the world end before the dead stop walking

Cause you’ll find hope outlasts even the darkest days

For I’se not perished yet

And life for me ain’t been no peaceful dawn