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A Soldier's Dream
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Mos Def speaking)
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I?m not gon sing a song or nothing.
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Um, what that term they call it post traumatic stress syndrome? That thing that
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Uh, soldiers will get. I think a lot of people get that. It?s like when you
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Experience somethin and uh, it affects you for a long time afterwards. I guess
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Everything works that way. Certain things have more impact than others.
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Sometimes it visits you in your dreams or when you?re quiet or just at peace or
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Trying to be at peace. A lot of soldiers get it. A lot of common people get
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It. A lot of the time common people are soldiers, that?s just the way it works
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Out.
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This is a soldier?s dream
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The other night I was tumbling towards an uneasy sleep
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When I had discovered myself
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Atop the sweet sticky firmament of my dreams.
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Daybreak came and discovered me
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With my fantasies pasted to my face.
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I can't look at you right now.
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"Show me your eyes," she says.
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"Later," he says. "Now, now." "NO!"
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Shame is a prison you know.
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Yeah, well discretion is a fortress
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You?re starin and lookin too closely.
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There?s so much about me that I hide
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That careful eyes will recognize.
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If you look closely you?ll notice
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That the pattern on this soft cloth shirt
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Is made of workin men?s sweat
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And prayin folk?s tears.
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If you look closer you?ll notice
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That this pattern resembles
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Tenement row houses, project high rises,
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Cell block tiers,
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Discontinued stretches of elevated train tracks,
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Slave ship gullies, acres of tombstones.
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If you look closer, you?ll notice
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That this fabric has been carefully blended
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With an advanced new age polymer (oh man, that?s nice)
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To make the fabric lightweight
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Weatherproof, and durable.
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All this to give some sort of posture and dignity
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To a broken body that is a host for scars.
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I am the new landmark. I am the museum of injury.
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Soldiers visit me and admire me quietly,
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Whispering amongst themselves. You're no soldier.
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Your soft bright eyes never have to
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Survey the battlefield,
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Much less its collected relics of which, I am one.
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So, my flesh bullet-ridden remains hidden
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Underneath these soft fabrics
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Which I carefully select
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That stand in for how I used to feel,
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For how I remember feeling,
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For how I dream about feeling,
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For how I feel about you.
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And now your curious fingers want to search
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Beyond this tender armor.
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I can't look at you right now
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(This is my rifle there are many like it but this one is mine) 2x
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Your eyes are too careful,
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Collecting it all arranging it all;
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Surgically, robotically, exactly.
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I can't look at you right now
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But that doesn't matter because
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You can look at me and the longer that
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I don?t return your gaze,
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The harder that your gaze
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Starts to run across my back
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Like a nervous policeman?s hands:
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Brisk, intent, anxious for discovery.
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If discretion is a fortress
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Then you're threatening to destroy it
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By simply standing at the gates
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And refusing to leave.
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I can't look at you right now,
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But you can look at me. Do you see me?
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