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Sober - It'll Be Ok

from SpinTunes 19 Round 3 by Spintunes

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Just turned in my six month chip
A load of Copenhagen in my bottom lip
And I shake out a fresh one and take a drag

24 days to recuperate
One for every week that I was away
That’s a lot of time to kill and it’s killin me

And if I were French
I could have had a half a glass a day
Soften up the edges and head back to my tent
And tell myself that it’ll be ok

Khenjakak and Sperwan Ghar
Wolverine and Kandahar
And all the other FOBs and COPs I can’t recall

The loneliest feeling I’ve ever known
Is either 10am on my street at home
Or crammed in the transient tent in Kyrgyzstan

And if there were a way
To go for just a half an hour a day
Maybe life at home would be more than shades of gray
And I’d tell myself that it’ll be ok

I get along fine til I start to itch
Then I put in for a duty switch
To a unit gearing up to go downrange

I never tell my family that I volunteered
It’s not like I don’t want em near
But there’s something missing here, or maybe in me

And if there were a way
To go for just a half an hour a day
Maybe life at home would be more than shades of gray
And I’d tell myself that it’ll be ok

If they ever end this war
And I can’t get away any more
And it’s up to me to deal with all the
Voices in my head

I’ll tell myself it’ll be ok
If I can find another way
But until then I’ll stock up on
Copenhagen and menthols

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from SpinTunes 19 Round 3, released April 18, 2022

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