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DUCT TAPED BIBLE
g.godard & r.martin

I SAT DOWN BESIDE THE OLD MAN,
WE WERE WAITIN FOR THE CHOIR TO BEGIN
THAT'S WHEN HE NOTICED,
THE BIBLE I WAS HOLDING IN MY HAND
THE COVER WAS ALL FADED,
THERE WAS DUCT TAPE GOIN UP AND DOWN THE SPINE, DATED 1939

THE OLD MAN SOFTLY WHISPERED
COULD YOU TELL ME BOUT THAT BOOK YOU?RE HOLDING THERE
I TURNED TO HIM AND SAID MISTER
THIS IS FROM A CROSS I HAD TO BEAR
I SAID I NEVER MET MY GRANDPA,
BUT HE?S THE REASON THAT I?M HERE TODAY, I WENT ON TO SAY

I TOOK THIS DUCT TAPED BIBLE, TO FIGHT SOMEONE ELSE?S BATTLE
SOMEWHERE IN THE GULF IN 1993
I CAME HOME I WAS A HERO, AND RIGHT UP UNTIL GROUND ZERO
I THOUGHT SOMEHOW THAT WE COULD ALL BE FREE

THEY DECORATED ME FOR BRAVERY
BUT I BELIEVE I KNOW WHAT SAVED ME
THIS DUCT TAPED BIBLE GPANDPA LEFT BEHIND
I WISH HE COULD HAVE BEEN PART OF MY LIFE

WHEN THE SERVICE WAS ALL OVER
WE SAT THERE JUST LIKE TWO OLD FRIENDS MIGHT DO
I LEANED OVER AND I ASKED HIM
I GUESS YOU MUST HAVE SERVED IN WORLD WAR TWO
HE JSUT STARED OUT IN THE DISTANCE,
THEN HE GENTLY PLACED HIS HAND UPON MY BOOK
AND WITH A TREMBLIN? LOOK

HE SAID I TOOK THIS DUCT TAPED BIBLE, TO FIGHT SOMEONE ELSE?S BATTLE
ON A FOREIGN SOIL IN 1943
I CAME HOME MY LIFE WAS SHATTERED, I LOST MY WAY AND ALL THAT MATTERED
SOMEHOW THE WAR JUST GOT THE BEST OF ME

I LOST EVERY OUNCE OF BRAVERY, AND THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED ME
WAS THIS DUCT TAPED BIBLE YOU?VE GOT IN YOUR HANDS
SON I THINK YOU KNOW NOW, WHO I AM