ฟังเพลงThe Big Parade

The Big Parade - 10,000 BC

Written by：Jerome Augustyniak

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 vietcong

Slow deliberate steps are involved

He takes them away

From the black granite wall

Toward the other monuments

So white and clean

Potomac what you've seen

Abraham had his war too

But an honest war

Or so it's taught in school