Corporal Richardson

from Small Things Shining Bright by Edward St Moritz

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Written a few years back when Canada's Armed Forces were still in Afghanistan. I heard a report that a soldier commited suicide. Name and gender changed, but not the nature of the psyche's trauma. Dedicated to all survivors of PTSD, those who didn't, and their families.

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7. Corporal Richardson

Corporal Richardson came home today
Fought in a war that was far far away
Two weeks to go from a eight month stay
Corporal Richardson came home today
Corporal Richardson saw her friends die
boot on the road and blood on her eyes
The truck in the air where birds ought to fly
Corporal Richardson saw her friends die

Terror's a word we don't know at all
Security's politics have put up the walls
We don't pay much except taxes and fear
and hope it will all go away by next year

Corporal Richardson cried in the gloom
where an acid burned girl moaned alone in the room
No time to think it all happened too soon
Corporal Richardson wept in those ruins.

Then she got the letter “No lover, no more.
Things aren't getting better and I'm out the door”
You leave a sweetheart to kill or be killed
but it's not for the country or forms that you fill

Corporal Richardson can't take no more
Her hope and her memory are far distant shores
They cleaned her despair and her stains from the floor
Corporal Richardson ....

Corporal Richardson came home today
Fought in a war that was far far away
Two weeks to go from a eight month stay
Corporal Richardson came home today

©2016 words and music by Edward Moll (SOCAN)

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from Small Things Shining Bright, released June 16, 2016
Vocals and Guitar: Edward St Moritz
Cello: Alyssa Wright

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Edward St Moritz Barrie, Ontario

Ed lives in Collingwood Ontario.

He and Don Bray produced his first CD of original songs Small Things Shining Bright and has just completed a second project A Bit of Change with Ray Dillard.

Why a darkside navigator?
“I am responsible for the directions I take in those gray territories. I do go into depression, but I also know how to sail through it. My songs are the maps of experience there.” ... more

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