Dappled Cities - Battlewon video free download

Battlewon by Dappled Cities from the 2006 album Granddance. It's our closest thing to a protest song - a story about a soldier, written in response to a war that's still going 7 years later.

Lyrics:

Battlewon! Battlewon! I found my dignity.

The one that I lost the day that I went to war.

I don't need to fight to become the mightiest man.

The battle front, the battle front was bloody and diseased,

I never should have gone, I should never have left you,

My sergeant looked down and I ran for the clouds in the ceiling.

I'd have stopped and thought before I ran had I known

That my name would look so deathly in the news,

My love read it aloud and through tears looked to the clouds where I was still breathing.

BATTLEWON! BATTLEWON! I found my dignity.

The one that I lost the day that I went to war.

I don't need to fight to become the mightiest man... MAN.