Lyrics
Verse 1
Flannel torn and eyes gone wild
Forty years of fields gone sterile
He's been living off the grid
Since the day they shipped him home
Dust on his boots and Bible pages
Mud on the truck that don't run no more
Every siren sound he hears
Takes him back to a jungle somewhere
Pre-Chorus
Sheriff cuts the headlights down
Deputies fan out through the pines
Radio crackle low and slow
He knows they know he's out here somewhere
Chorus
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Love win
Love win
Verse 2
Three tours in a land of green
He wrote her letters never sent
Now the mailbox rusted shut
And the porch light burned out long
He's got medals in a coffee tin
Dog tags tangled on a nail
Shadows shaped like strangers now
Every heartbeat sounds like marching
Pre-Chorus
One deputy holds the flashlight high
The sheriff waves his hands real slow
They been tracking him since Tuesday dawn
He's got nowhere left to run
Chorus
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Love win
Love win
Bridge
(Old soldier) old soldier
(Old soldier) put it down
(Old soldier) old soldier
Let the love win
He remembers mama's kitchen
He remembers Sunday grace
He remembers a girl named Ruth
And the weight of her hand in his
Drop
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Let the love win
Chorus
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Love win
Love win
Love win
Outro Verse
He sets the rifle in the dirt
Raises both his trembling hands
Sheriff walks up through the mist
Takes his shoulder like a brother
He says son you're home now
You're home now
You're home now
Son you're home now
Final Chorus
Your war is over long ago
Put down your gun son let the love win
Love win
Love win
Love win
Talkin' Bridge]
(Well now) I reckon I've seen a thousand roads
From the Delta mud to the rocky slope
But I never saw a man so lost
He forgot his mama's way back home
Old son, this badge don't mean a thing
Next to the weight of what you're carrying
So set that rifle in the clover
And let the peace come rolling over
Bridge
(Old soldier) old soldier
(Old soldier) lay it down
(Old soldier) old soldier
Let the love win
Verse 5
He remembers June of sixty-nine
Haircuts in the barber line
He remembers sister's wedding dress
And the preacher's steady shine
Deputy Ruth from two towns over
Reads a psalm out soft and low
Every word a thread of mercy
Stitching daylight through his soul
towns over
Reads a psalm out soft and low
Every word a thread of mercy
Stitching daylight through his soul
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