The Walking Wounded

Album: Johnny Cash: Forever Words (2018)
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  • We're in the church house kneeling down
    We're in the subways, underground
    We're in the bars and on the street
    We drive a truck, we walk a beat
    We're in the mills and factories
    We make the steel, we cut the trees
    A thousand yards stare as a glass
    But we will see you when you pass

    We lost our homes, we lost our dreams
    All our goals have turned to schemes
    We hurt each other and ourselves
    So after long traumatic spells

    We are the walking, we are the walking
    We are the walking wounded

    We cried out from the deepest pit
    But rise back up each time we're hit
    We fell from power and from grace
    Resurrection's in our face
    We're just like little girls and boys
    We play with grown up toys
    We never thought of sink or swim
    My brother hurts me so I hurt him

    We are the walking, we are the walking
    We are the walking wounded

    Like a circle, round and round
    We go up so we come down
    We don't explain or apologise
    We pull the veil across our eyes
    We see through your fake refrain
    We won't let you see our pain
    You may not know us but you'll see
    There are more than you'd believe

    We are the walking, we are the walking
    We are the walking, we are the walking
    We are the walking (a thousand hours of glass)
    We are the walking (see our past)
    We are the walking wounded Writer/s: ROSANNE CASH
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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