Dress Blues Lyrics - Zac Brown Band

1 What can you see from your window?

2 I can't see anything from mine

3 Flags on the side of the highway

4 And scripture on grocery store signs

5 Maybe eighteen was too early

6 Maybe thirty or forty is too

7 Did you get your chance to make peace with the man

8 Before he sent down his angels for you?

9 Mamas and grandmamas love you

10 'Cause that's all they know how to do

11 You never planned on the bombs in the sand

12 Or sleeping in your dress blues

13 Your wife said this all would be funny

14 When you came back home in a week

15 You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you

16 In a bar or a tent by the creek

17 Your baby would just about be here

18 Your very last tour would be up

19 But you won't be back, they're all dressin' in black

20 Drinking sweet tea in Styrofoam cups

21 Mamas and grandmamas love you

22 American boys hate to lose

23 You never planed on the bombs in the sand

24 Or sleepin' in your dress blues

25 Now the high school gymnasium's ready

26 Full of flowers and old legionnaires

27 Nobody showed up to protest

28 They just sniffle and stare

29 There's red, white, and blue in the rafters

30 And there's silent old men from the corps

31 What did they say when they shipped you away

32 To give all in some God awful war?

33 Nobody here could forget you

34 You showed us what we had to lose

35 You never planned on the bombs in the sand

36 Or sleeping in your dress blues

37 No, no you never planned on the bombs in the sand

38 Or sleeping in your dress blues