Steel Still Rusts

Best of days livin' a simple life

There's nowhere to go when there's only one stop light

His grandmother told him, "Don't you dare sign up

They'll ship you away to places we ain't heard of

Get a degree, and maybe be a doctor

Just ask your daddy, it won't matter what they got ya"

Lifetimes you could spend to find out what she meant

Her final dying breath, this is what she said

"Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us

Ashes to ashes turns out steel still rusts

Stone carved in your name no one can really trust

Shoulder another soldier they stole from us

Don't ever bend, don't ever crawl

Supposed to stand, and never fall

Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us

Ashes to ashes turns out steel still rusts"

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Steel still rusts

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

A third of his life off in a foreign land

Well, thanks for your service, sincerely Uncle Sam

Lost the best of friends he'd ever known

And no line of welcome signs once he got back home

He got a job, a doorman at a dive bar

Became a bodyguard, protecting famous Rockstars

Lost count of the times he's been around the world

Promised Grandmama he'd never lose these words

Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us

Ashes to ashes turns out steel still rusts

Stone carved in your name no one can really trust

Shoulder another soldier they stole from us

Don't ever bend, don't ever crawl

Supposed to stand, and never fall

Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us

Ashes to ashes turns out steel still rusts

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Steel still rusts

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Dust to dust

Forever feel the wounds that never heal

When fallen friends are now a line of crosses in a field

Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us

Ashes to ashes turns out steel still rusts (steel still rusts)

Stone carved in your name no one can really trust

Shoulder another soldier they stole from us

Don't ever bend, don't ever crawl

Supposed to stand, and never fall (and never fall)

Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us

Ashes to ashes turns out steel still rusts

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Steel still rusts (steel still rusts

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Steel still rusts