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Emotional Scars

Walt’s Sinking Boat Tape (1988), track 1

A soldier who came home and didn’t.

You’re home now it’s been so long
But the battle in your mind is still raging on

Upon return returning home
No one to love you’re all alone

Deep painful wounds that never heal
An inflicted disease that have no cure

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Transcribed as written: straight off the band’s original insert sheet, misspellings and all.

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