Dispatch - The General Lyrics
There was a decorated General with a heart of goldThat likened him to all the stories he toldOf past battles won and lostAnd legends of oldA seasoned veteran in his own time.On the battlefield he gained respectful fameWith many medals of bravery and stripes to his nameHe grew a beard as soon as he couldTo cover the scars on his faceAnd always urged his men onBut on the eve of great battle with the infantry in dreamThe old general tossed in his sleepA lesson with its meaningHe awoke from the night to tell what he had seenAnd walked slowly out of his tent.All the men held tall with their chests in the airWith a courage in their bloodAnd a fire in their stareIt was a grey morning and they all wondered how they would fare'Til the old general told them to go home.He said,"I have seen the othersAnd I have discoveredthat this fight is not worth fightingAnd I've seen their mothersAnd I will no otherto follow me where I'm going.So take a shower and shine your shoesYou've got no time to loseYou are young men you must be living.Take a shower and shine your shoesYou've got no time to loseYou are young men you must be living.Go now you are forgiven."Yeah...But the men stood fast with their guns on their shouldersNot knowing what to do with the contradicting ordersThe General said he would do his own dutyBut he would extend it no furtherThe men could go as they pleasedBut not a man movedtheir eyes gazed straight ahead'Til one by one they stepped back and not a word was saidThe old General was left with his own wordsEchoing in his headHe then prepared to fightHe said,"I have seen the othersAnd I have discoveredthat this fight is not worth fightingNo, and I've seen their mothersAnd I will no other to follow me where I'm goingSo take a shower and shine your shoesYou've got no time to loseYou are young men you must be living.Take a shower and shine your shoesYou've got no time to loseYou are young men you must be living.Go now you are forgiven."Yeah...Go now you are forgivenGo now you are forgivenGo now you are forgivenGoGo now you are forgivenGo now you are forgivenGo now you are forgivenGo ohGo now you are forgivenGo now you are forgivenGo now you got to be got to be got to be got to be got to be yeah
