Poppies Roll On In Me 🇺🇸🪖

(Verse 1) There’s a weird wild feeling Seeing the truth of war, and living it like a movie I’d never felt that before I walked beside my brothers, and laughed and joked and cried Thinking there’s so much more to everything and then our friends died I saw them leave the earth right in front of me Just a scene now that I'll never un-see (Chorus) It’s hard to talk about, the carnage of the heart But there’s courage in the motion, every time you start And when I think about it, the pain comes back real And I’m stuck back in Afghanistan in that poppy field Where the beauty was indescribable, but the fight was undeniable Just a scene now that I'll never un-see the credits never come in the film that still rolls in me (Verse 2) Hours to days in those fields, staying up past the dawn Patrolling to keep us going, just to keep moving on We held it together, we had to just figure it out Then I come back home, sorting it out alone on my couch Yeah, I left that soil, but I brought back the seeds And there’s many poppies still growing in me (Bridge) I want to think about the beauty in the poppies And the magic in the guys we lost... When one moment brings me back to the movie when we deployed and how much it cost How they’d want us to just live in joy, not be destroyed (Chorus) It’s hard to talk about, the carnage of the heart But there’s courage in the motion, every time you start And when I think about it, the pain comes back real And I’m stuck back in Afghanistan in that poppy field Where the beauty was indescribable, but the fight was undeniable Just a scene now that I'll never un-see the credits never come in the film that still rolls in me (Outro) The good times... the movie scenes All those poppies still roll on in me