Memorial Day is an American federal holiday observed annually on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.
By the early 20th century, Memorial Day was an occasion for more general expressions of memory, as people visited the graves of their deceased relatives in church cemeteries, whether they had served in the military or not. It also became a long weekend increasingly devoted to shopping, family gatherings, fireworks, trips to the beach, and national media events.
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Oh, look at the green grass
All the white stone masts
Your ship ain't going nowhere baby
Can't sail away from this, you can't sail away
Memorial day
Come every April, I hear the shadows call
By the time May comes around
I know that history only exists
Because of war
Memorial day
Memorial day
I understand the need to respect the dead, learn from them
I understand there's more to this
More to this than counting, baby
More to this than counting
I wear my granddad's medal, the ones he wouldn't wear
They represented destruction to him
They feel like freedom
When you look at them from here
Memorial day
I understand the need to respect the dead, learn from them
I understand there's more to this
More to this than counting, baby
More to this than counting
Yesterday was significant, if yesterday you were alive
The things that were important
When you woke up yesterday
Just remember who you were, adjust for flight
Memorial day
Memorial day
I bet you never though you'd see me scratching at air like an amputee.
So what's left? I've got a head like a trainwreck.
Who's keeping count of the casualties?
Fatigue thrusts its jackhammer fists into my eyes,
but I'm afraid to lie down. Afraid to slow down.
Afraid to go home. (It's gonna catch up to me...)
I'm tied in knots because of what I'm not and I can't share what I haven't got.
So here's to the skinned knees and sutured hearts.
Here's to the unhappy endings and all the false starts
I hear you speak but I can't believe the things you say.
You praise the war machines
and then you ask us to pray for peace and for the deceased.
Bow our heads and ask them for our freedom that they died for.
And you speak of freedom like it's so honorable
to die for an ideology that prices life less than oil.
So now it's an honor to die to spread Americanism through out the world?
To paint the street with liquor stores,
gun shops, Mc Donald's and Disney world.
Well that boy died in vain.
At the hands of a country that hates him.
Under a religion that tricked him.
Remember that on Memorial Day.
That little boy at the parade watches the band march
by playing the American anthem.
He waves his flag so proud
because that's what the system has taught him.
One day he'll go to work over educated
and under paid by a corporation that hates him.
That's what they fought for,
that's what they died for remember that on Memorial Day.
You?ve gotta pick yourself up by the bootstraps
No one?s gonna help you out when you fall
You?ve gotta find a way out of your problems
When you?re broke and you?re backed up against the wall
If you sleep on your only chances
They?ll never come around again
So dig deep and swing for the fences
You never know it might work out in the end
Come join the fight
So we can change the way we?re living
What?s left inside?
If you believe
Believe you?ll never give in
Come join the fight
Turn away and you?ll be sure to lose it
Hold onto those dreams
They?re the one thing they can?t take away now
I was young and I wouldn?t hear it
You had opinions I had mine too
Just a kid with all the answers
A pompous pride and not one clue
It?s getting late now shadow?s falling
As the sun sets on my time
There?s always something there to remind me
I try to keep up and still fall behind
Come join the fight
So we can change the way we?re living
What?s left inside?
If you believe
Believe you?ll never give in
Come join the fight
Turn away and you?ll be sure to lose it
Hold onto those dreams
They?re the one thing they can?t take away now
What?s left inside?
If you believe
Believe you?ll never give in
I was young and I wouldn?t hear it
You had opinions I had mine too
Just a kid with all the answers
A pompous pride and not one clue
Come join the fight
So we can change the way we?re living
What?s left inside?
If you believe
Believe you?ll never give in
Come join the fight
Turn away and you?ll be sure to lose it
Hold onto those dreams
They?re the one thing they can?t take away now
Mama keeps tryin’ to get the game on the radioDaddy’s gotta know the score
There’s a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
Wonder what that thing’s forWe got towels rolled up in the back seat window
Keeping us out of the sunJust a hundred more miles and we’ll be at grandma’s
Sure is gonna be fun
Maybe she’ll take us fishin’
Maybe she’ll bake us a pieRemember like she did that one time
Back before grandpa died
It’s Memorial Day in America
Everybody’s on the road
Let’s remember our fallen heroes
Y’all be sure and drive slow
Ninety eight degrees in the shade of the tool shed
Can’t go back in the house
They’re all in the kitchen yellin’ ‘bout something
Don’t know what it’s about
Joey ‘n Mary said not to worry
Said it’s just the same old figh
tHappens whenever they all get together
Everything’s really alright
It’s Memorial Day in America
This is how it’s supposed to be
Let’s remember our fallen heroesIn the land of the free
Daddy’s in the big chair sippin’ on a cold beer
Grandma’s cuttin’ a switch
She overheard Mary cussin’ her brother
Called him a son of a bitch
She got a good green limb off a sweet gum sapling
Man that’s bound to sting
But Mary don’t cry just stands there and takes it
Doesn’t seem to feel a thing
No Mary don’t cry, you know she’s a big girl
Wonder what made her so mad
She takes those licks looking in through the den door
Staring right straight at her dad
There’s a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
Daddy nearly hit that bird
They’re both in the front seat
Starin’ right straight ahead
Neither one saying a word
The sun’s going down in the rear view mirror
Gonna be driving all night
Wonder if the neighbor’s fed the canary
I've got a question.
I've got a question.
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We been lookin' for months and we ain't found nothin'
Please Mr. President, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that your ass was bluffing!
[Mr. Lif]
How unfortunate, it wasn't what you thought it kid, in basic training
They taught you how to slay man as a start-up kit
and you showed up with a gun to load up
Hopin' a college education's waitin', maybe a steady occupation
Now you're weighing many lives against yours
President orders, got you on course, with holocaust, Sargent is lost
General's boss, plans cross, now you in the crosshair
of a sniper's shaky scared, shot of your ear
All fucked up now! one round just hit him in his from some young yet expendable citizen
He's from the other side of the line, fightin' for time
Time to see his kids walk, time to talk with his pops
Time to have a rational thought without the thought of bein' shot
(Damn) his gun jammed now you gotta bombart
It's a soldier's suicide slide - know you tried hard to stay alive
When you're catching fire from both sides
and we miss you at home, its time the government truly left you alone
Dropped you off and popped one in your dome
Now we've seen it in Iraq and the Congo - America's motto
"Kill their leader then we build a stronghold!"
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We been lookin' for months and we ain't found nothin'
Please Mr. President, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that your ass was bluffing!
[Akrobatik]
I never thought of this the day that I enlisted
That I'd be dodging bullets, seekin weapons that never even existed
For someone else's personal beef, I risk myself
While the Commander-in-Chief, would never come to fight himself
I feel I'm bein' tricked even worse that the civilians
Nobody ever told me that we would be killin' children!
Feelin like the ones that sent me here are the psychotics
but if I say that out loud -- I'm "unpatriotic"
but would Donald Rumsfeld back me up with the chrome?
Would Tom Ridge fight or would he stay secure back home?
and would Condoleeza Rice cover grenades in a fox hole?
I'm startin to believe what I was told is not so
What's the reason for the war?
I'm shootin at these people that I got not animosity for
I wonder if I'm just a pawn in someone else's struggle
or a here even though I'm just a small piece of the puzzle
I know that when I finally return where I reside
I'll make up for the months my wife and moms cried
and carry on for all my fallen brothers that died
but you can't take my pride -- cuz I'm a fuckin' SOLDIER
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We been lookin' for months and we ain't found nothin'
Please Mr. President, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that your ass was bluffing!
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We been lookin' for months and we ain't found nothin'
Please Mr. President, tell us something
(Carly Simon)
It should have been so soft, this morning as we left
But the valley was infected, by a different kind of beauty
And the Indians they knew, it was a devil's sanctuary.
Out of this unholy dawn, a car came stirring up the sand
And a woman from a passion play
Held up the limousine that brought me
All this way today. And I didn't need to turn around
So strong was the message, and the man who planned her life
Commanded all that followed: Well they bellowed, and they hollered
And they threw each other down, down in this valley
This cruel and lovely valley, Oh it should have been an alley
In some low down part of town
As the lights came up, there was no sun
And brandy splattered all over the ground
As this woman with her head held high
Yelled love and why oh why, you're killing me oh follow me-
As I watched safe and clean, from the frosted windows of that limousine
Well they bellowed and they hollered, and they threw each other down
Down in this valley, this cruel and lovely valley
Oh it sould have been an alley, in some low down part of town
Before he'd been so funny, imagining the best:
That he'd escaper recrimination, for abandoning the nest
He'd been joking and stoned, while he was entertaining me
But then turned and was stunned, by her panic and her misery
And I was in the get-away car
Giving him a chance, to get away
Get away, get away
And how the valley smoked, as he crossed Route 25
With his cymbals and his shattered crown, leaving all alone
His eyes fixed on the ground. And he didn't even turn around
So strong was the message, and he fell into the shallow sky
And was swallowed.
Well they bellowed and they hollered, and they threw each other down
Down in this valley, this cruel and lovely valley