Bang the Drum Slowly - 2007 Remaster

I meant to ask you how to fix that car
 I always meant to ask you about the war
 And what you saw across a bridge too far
 Did it leave a scar
 Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
 Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
 And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
 How did it feel
 Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
 To dust be returning from dust we begin
 Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
 Above and below me world without end
 I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
 And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
 There was still that line that you would never cross
 At any cost
 I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
 With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
 And if you ever really were deceived
 By the likes of me
 Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
 To dust be returning from dust we begin
 Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
 Above and below me world without end
 Gone now is the day and gone the sun
 There is peace tonight all over Arlington
 But the songs of my life will still be sung
 By the light of the moon you hung
 I meant to ask you how to plow that field
 I meant to bring you water from the well
 And be the one beside you when you fell
 Could you tell
 Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
 To dust be returning from dust we begin
 Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
 Above and below me world without end