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Ring around the rosy,
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes we all fall down
As we laugh in the face of those who died.
We all fall down
As if mocking the ones who begged for death
Children fall on their backs and laugh.
Not knowing the torture behind the song
We teach torture to our children.
They laugh and play, innocently shooting each other in the head
We watch and smile at the fun they have
While a veteran takes another leap away from sobriety
Remembering the sound of those bullets
As they shot a man he called his brother.
Little songs our children sing
Stand for the battles of those before us
Let us all sing of death and pain
As the true meaning fades away.
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