The Big Parade 歌詞
The Big Parade - 10,000 Maniacs
Written by：Jerome Augustyniak/Merchant Natalie/Peter Asher
Detroit
To DC
Night train capitol parts east
Lone young man takes a seat
And by the rhythm of the rails
Reading all his mother's mail
From a city boy in a jungle town
Postmarked saigon
He'll go live his mother's dream
Join the slowest parade he'll ever see
Her weight of sorrows carried long
And carried far
Take these Tommy to the wall
Metro line to the mall site
With a tour of Japanese
He's wandering and lost until
A vet in worn fatigues takes him down to where
They belong
Near a soldier
An ex marine
With a tattooed dagger
And eagle trembling he bites his
Lip beside a widow breaking down
She takes her purple heart
Makes a fist
Strikes the wall
All come to live a dream
To join the slowest parade they'll ever see
Their weight of sorrows carried long and carried
Far taken to the wall
It's 40 paces to the year
That he was slain
His hand's slipping down the wall
For it's slick with rain
How would life have ever been the same
If this wall had carved in it one less name
But for Christ's sake he's been dead
Over 20 years
He leaves the letters asking
Who caused my mother's tears was it Washington
Or the viet cong
Slow deliberate
Steps are involved
He takes them away
From the black granite wall
Toward the other monuments so white and clean
Oh potomac what you've seen
Abraham had his war too
But an honest war
Or so it's taught in school