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The World Was Naive

from Now to Recall by Timothy Zieger

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The World Was Naive

The world was naive in 1914.
All glory and gallantry muzzles and manes.
The horse and his rider, all red in the rain
meet man’s big achievement in metal and pain.

The soldiers march on, no one quite knows why,
while the war to end all wars illumines the sky.

And the mud in the trenches, the dead in the trenches
The fear in the trenches digs into the mind.

What can it mean?
Is there a reason for everything?
The dead have a glory
Fit for altars and for flames.

I’ve been naive and I’ve tried hard to please
the major above me who looks out for me.

But I slipped and faltered the day that I found
My brother’s torn body alone on the ground.

There’s no room for grieving in all of this noise
There’s no room to bury the soul with the joy.

This war’s just a game, this life’s just a game.
A cruel kind of game that we all have to play.

‘Cause only the dead
Can ever reach the end.
And, when life thrives on stealing
all of the living that’s been spent

I listen to the cries in no-man’s land
And consider whether I should lift my head.
I listen to the cries in no-man’s land
And consider whether I should lift my head.

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from Now to Recall, released May 21, 2020

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Timothy Zieger Factoryville, Pennsylvania

When it comes to music, I try to write better songs than I used to and make better sounds than I used to.

I have kids, house projects, chickens, a '98 Toyota Tacoma, and a that'll-do home studio.

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