th Fret Intro: There's addition and subtraction But division overall Hope, once in fluid motion Has slowed behind a crawl Oh, the images are strong now The words are pretty good But there's more fiction out of Washington Than out of Hollywood On the road of good intentions All gets justified to hell The price revealed in stories Too short, too sad to tell INTERLUDE: Is this permanent improvement Through abbreviated lives Or another tragic venture Shocking when the bill arrives? By the rubble where the house was There are markers in the dirt Children with no need of freedom They can no longer be hurt On the road of good intentions All gets justified to hell The price revealed in stories Too short, too sad to tell INTERLUDE: Oh, the soldiers and their families With life and limb they pay While the ones who sent them marching Get to dance the night away I always come back to the soldiers With their courage and ideals I've seen them smoking in the airport There's no telling how it feels On the road of good intentions All gets justified to hell The price revealed in stories Too short, too sad to tell OUTRO:
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