CORRECTAR LA LETRA
Letra : Crooked Smile
In the little town where I grew up
My childhood came and went
Was a dark-haired girl with a crooked smile
With whom my days were often spent
And I never gave much thanks to luck
When we'd count the stars at night
But after 14 years, the war broke out
And they shipped me off to fight
I felt a taste of honor
Until it finally hit me why
I'm too poor to dodge and to young to vote
But I ain't too young to die
That night, I wept in darkness
Alone and on my knees
Clenched my hands as hard as they could squeeze
I'd never even kissed that girl
And I'd never fired a gun
And I always thought you couldn't be a man until the age of 21
Seems the only thing I knew for sure
Is that they wouldn't take what's mine
So I set my sights on anything that stepped across the line
And the first time that I killed I man
I felt it in my chest
And many nights I saw his face
Until it blurred in with the rest
I felt no trace of honor
When it finally came with ease
Instead I knelt down in the mud and begged him please
Take me home to see my mother
Take me home, away from here
Don't let me die so young and broken
And surrounded by the smell of death and fear
I lost count along the way
Of the ones I put in graves
But everyone took a little more from a heart I couldn't save
And all the things I did out there
Were the furthest thing from law
So I screamed myself awake most nights
And relived the things I saw
And if I could have just one last prayer
Then the last thing that I'd see
Would be the dark-haired girl with a crooked smile
As she waved goodbye to me
But I never had much luck with prayers
I did even worse with pleas
So I'd be god damned if I die here on my knees
I'm going home to see my mother
I'm going home, away from here
I ain't gonna die alone and broken
Or forsaken under skies full of despair
My childhood came and went
Was a dark-haired girl with a crooked smile
With whom my days were often spent
And I never gave much thanks to luck
When we'd count the stars at night
But after 14 years, the war broke out
And they shipped me off to fight
I felt a taste of honor
Until it finally hit me why
I'm too poor to dodge and to young to vote
But I ain't too young to die
That night, I wept in darkness
Alone and on my knees
Clenched my hands as hard as they could squeeze
I'd never even kissed that girl
And I'd never fired a gun
And I always thought you couldn't be a man until the age of 21
Seems the only thing I knew for sure
Is that they wouldn't take what's mine
So I set my sights on anything that stepped across the line
And the first time that I killed I man
I felt it in my chest
And many nights I saw his face
Until it blurred in with the rest
I felt no trace of honor
When it finally came with ease
Instead I knelt down in the mud and begged him please
Take me home to see my mother
Take me home, away from here
Don't let me die so young and broken
And surrounded by the smell of death and fear
I lost count along the way
Of the ones I put in graves
But everyone took a little more from a heart I couldn't save
And all the things I did out there
Were the furthest thing from law
So I screamed myself awake most nights
And relived the things I saw
And if I could have just one last prayer
Then the last thing that I'd see
Would be the dark-haired girl with a crooked smile
As she waved goodbye to me
But I never had much luck with prayers
I did even worse with pleas
So I'd be god damned if I die here on my knees
I'm going home to see my mother
I'm going home, away from here
I ain't gonna die alone and broken
Or forsaken under skies full of despair
