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Cold War

from WAR by Dirty Melissa

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February 2022

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Dog tags hanging from a hook
From a war that never happened
The year I became a veteran
The battles started up again

For a kid that grew up
Watching Vietnam on TV
With a fear of being drafted

It’s ironic

For a kid that grew up
Watching Vietnam on TV
With a fear of being shot down

It’s ironic that

For a kid that grew up
Watching Vietnam on TV
With a fear of bayonets

It’s ironic that I signed up on my own
trained and prepared for the war

The war that never happened
The war that never happened

If fear is my abuser
Then It must be true,
I’m in love with my abuser
Even if I choose her

I didn’t have to dodge the draft
Or move to Canada
My timing happened to be just right
Where I never have to go and fight


The war that never happened

For a kid that grew up
Watching Vietnam on TV
With a fear of being drafted

It’s ironic

For a kid that grew up
Watching Vietnam on TV
With a fear of being shot down

It’s ironic that

For a kid that grew up
Watching Vietnam on TV
With a fear of bayonets

It’s ironic that I signed up on my own

Trained and prepared for war
The war that never happened
Trained and prepared for war
The war that never happened
Trained and prepared for war
The war that never happened
Trained and prepared for war


It’s not the first or second war
or the Korean or Vietnam war
It is my old war, the cold war
the war inside of me
The war that never happened

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from WAR, released March 6, 2022

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Dirty Melissa Auburn, California

Jonathan Aronson a.k.a. Dirty Melissa

Topical Lounge Metal Social Commentary Advice-Rock Show Tunes and Dinner Theater Punk

Methodology? Analog multitrack and plodding drum machine, usually one take recordings. Errors and all. ... more

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