Music

November Ghost   Year: 2006 | Run Time: 4:21

Written by Bill Mallonee for CyBrenJoJosh (BMI)

i should have kept kept that shot
of you turning up that bottle of scotch
and all of these rafts and pontoons
shimmer beneath normandy moon

here is where the voice leaves off
lungs collapsing sputtering cough
and as our crafts hit the shore
and we scramble to remember what for

always one more never the last
fresh off the farm into a bullet's path
another sad letter another grim post
another november ghost

you can touch the face of fate
when your blood saturates
the beaches were never fully cleared

dropped it into fifth when the clutch gave up
i was too high to die but down on my luck
never saw your pain when i was twenty five
it's the curse of youth to be so blind

always one more never the last
fresh off the farm into the looking glass

Did You Know?

Of this song, Bill says: "(It was) probably somewhat inspired by the D-Day landing scene in Speilberg's [sic] 'Saving Private Ryan.' At the end of the movie we are fast forwarded to the present. Ryan reflects on the lives given to save his. What he utters to his dead comrades in the graveyard of present day is always riveting to me... I think Speilberg is dealing with the idea of atonement here. Ryan sobs and says something like: 'I hope I was worth it...'"

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