The War Was In Color-Carbon Leaf

[ti:The War Was In Color] [ar:Carbon Leaf] [al:Love Loss Hope Repeat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The War Was In Color - Carbon Leaf [00:11.47]I see you've found a box of my things [00:19.60] [00:21.25]Infantries tanks and smoldering airplane wings [00:27.06] [00:32.00]These old pictures are cool [00:34.42]Tell me some stories [00:36.32] [00:36.99]Was it like the old war movies [00:41.24] [00:41.80]Sit down son [00:43.36] [00:44.52]Let me fill you in [00:47.35] [00:50.95]Where to begin [00:52.18] [00:53.30]Let's start with the end [00:54.80] [00:55.89]This black and white photo don't capture the skin [01:00.06] [01:00.86]From the flash of a gun to a soldier who's done [01:05.47] [01:06.32]Trust me grandson [01:08.27] [01:08.85]The war was in color [01:11.64] [01:31.39]From shipyard to sea [01:34.66] [01:36.18]From factory to sky [01:39.35] [01:40.69]From rivet to rifle from boot camp to battle cry [01:47.58] [01:51.47]I wore the mask up high on a daylight run [01:56.61]That held my face in it's clammy hand [01:59.21] [02:00.23]Crawled over coconut logs [02:03.26]And corpses in the coral sand [02:07.35] [02:10.20]Where to begin let's start with the end [02:14.20] [02:14.95]This black and white photo don't capture the skin [02:19.12] [02:19.84]From the shock of a shell or the memory of smell [02:24.26] [02:25.10]If red is for hell [02:26.94] [02:27.45]The war was in color [02:29.99] [02:34.46]I held the canvas bag over the railing [02:38.34] [02:39.54]The dead released with the ship still sailing [02:43.25] [02:44.04]Out of our hands and into the swallowing sea [02:50.82] [02:54.36]I felt the crossfire stitching up soldiers [02:58.42]Into a blanket of dead [03:00.72]And as the night grows colder [03:03.09] [03:03.86]In a window back home [03:05.42] [03:06.27]A blue star is traded for gold [03:09.64] [03:12.71]Where to begin [03:13.72] [03:15.02]Let's start with the end [03:16.88] [03:17.47]This black and white photo don't capture the skin [03:21.87] [03:22.37]When metal is churned [03:24.39] [03:25.16]And bodies are burned [03:26.83] [03:27.72]Victory earned [03:29.14] [03:29.91]The war was in color [03:32.45] [04:22.28]Now I lay in my grave at age 21 [04:28.05] [04:29.68]Long before you were born [04:31.90] [04:33.86]Before I bore a son [04:35.92] [04:37.52]What good did it do [04:39.45] [04:40.91]Hopefully for you [04:42.36] [04:43.77]A world without war [04:45.72] [04:47.05]A life full of color [04:49.12] [04:50.95]Where to begin [04:52.99] [04:53.80]Let's start with the end [04:55.28] [04:56.38]This black and white photo never captured my skin [05:00.62] [05:02.00]Once it was torn from an enemy thorn [05:05.88] [05:06.86]Straight through the core [05:08.56] [05:09.37]The war was in color [05:12.24]Where to begin [05:13.64] [05:14.43]Let's start with the end [05:15.92] [05:16.91]This black and white photo never captured my skin [05:21.21] [05:22.04]From the flash of a gun to a soldier who's done [05:26.10] [05:27.08]Trust me grandson [05:28.84] [05:29.49]The war was in color [05:31.56] [05:32.21]Trust me grandson [05:33.69] [05:34.59]The war was in color [05:37.22]Trust me grandson [05:39.00] [05:42.20]The war was in color