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Ordinary Soldiers

from YODELADY by Todd Hearon

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ORDINARY SOLDIERS

Driving out of a dream I guess ’cause I’ve been here before
Never knew your mother’s West was just another war
And your father with his medals and his mansions in Los Alamos
And his Halls of Montezuma and his pockets lined with Hiroshima’s ghosts
It was all dream, it was like a dream

’Cause ordinary soldiers, they don’t mean a thing
They’re just ornamental boulders in the same old spring
They don’t mean a thing, they don’t mean a thing

You can feel the ocean pressing on the desert floor
You can press yourself inside another just so far
And the storm we saw it coming like a vision of the great I AM
Or the Hopi Kokopelli in the shells above Afghanistan
Never rained so long, never came so long

But ordinary soldiers, they don’t mean a thing
They’re just ornamental boulders in the same old spring
They don’t mean a thing, they don’t mean a thing

And I held you up for ransom like I never held no one before
A phenomenal explosion in the middle of a great big war
Didn’t mean a thing, didn’t change a thing

’Cause ordinary soldiers, they don’t mean a thing
They’re just ornamental boulders in the same old spring
They don’t mean a thing, they don’t mean a thing

They don’t mean a thing

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from YODELADY, released August 5, 2023

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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