The War Was In Color Lyrics - Love Loss Hope Repeat - Carbon Leaf

I see you've found a box of my things 

Infantries, tanks and smoldering airplane wings 

These old pictures are cool, tell me some stories 

Was it like the old war movies? 

Sit down son, let me fill you in 

Where to begin? Let's start with the end 

This black and white photo, don't capture the skin 

From the flash of a gun to a soldier who's done 

Trust me grandson, the war was in color 

From shipyard to sea, from factory to sky 

From rivet to rifle, from boot camp to battle cry 

I wore the mask up high on a daylight run 

That held my face in its clammy hand 

Crawled over coconut logs and corpses in the coral sand 

Where to begin? Lets start with the end 

This black and white photo, don't capture the skin 

From the shock of a shell or the memory of smell 

If red is for Hell, the war was in color 

I held the canvas bag over the railing 

The dead released with the ship still sailing 

Out of our hands and into the swallowing sea 

I felt the crossfire stitching up soldiers 

Into a blanket of dead and as the night grows colder 

In a window back home, a Blue Star is traded for Gold 

Where to begin? Let's start with the end 

This black and white photo, don't capture the skin 

When metal is churned and bodies are burned 

Victory earned, the war was in color 

Now I lay in my grave at age 21 

Long before you were born, before I bore a son 

What good did it do? Well, hopefully for you 

A world without war, a life full of color 

Where to begin? Start with the end 

This black and white photo never captured my skin 

Once it was torn from an enemy thorn 

Straight through the core, the war was in color 

Where to begin? Let's start with the end 

This black and white photo never captured my skin 

From the flash of a gun to a soldier who's done 

Trust me grandson, the war was in color 

Trust me grandson, the war was in color 

Trust me grandson, the war was in color