Candy

Candy took me down Candy took me down Down to her cellar Down to her cellar We sat in candlelight Drinking her father's wine Sheltered in darkness Cold earth around us That's when the union came In veils of stormy rain She talked about her pa How she watched him in awe Preaching the Gospels She was delightful We heard the thunder fall Damn near break down these walls The bottles ringing Us two just sitting Outside the cannonballs Came screaming through the squall She took to crying then I watched the candle dim And curl and shudder Afraid to touch her And as the flame went dead Dear God I felt her head Rest tired upon me Just breathing softly Outside the city burned Lord it was hell on earth As darkness swept aside That breathless candlelight I felt her breathing And I started singing "Soldiers they will come and Soldiers they will go The war may lay the lot of us In rows of granite stone And if I join the cavalry and Perish far from home A life as sweet as Candy I may never live to know Cities they will burn And families will crack The hate that drove us from our homes Will drag the living back Limping from the darkness With our hatred in our tracks A long and lonely shadow That can never be undone" But Candy is asleep In darkness and in peace And my heart fills the silence With its happy little... --- Candy - The Blasting Company