We're Marching On

Send me no fond regards I had sufficient admirers
Your salutations are wasted as are your designs

I meant no disregard these weren't malicious desires
My palpitations have crested to form a blank line

But my heart is happy now
As the sun drips from my brow

There beneath soft green yards far from the scent of the flowers
On roots and tubers my head rests my blanket is pine

Pressed between rusting bars cut with the loss from my bearers
Only the worms send a protest to dance in my mind

But my heart is happy now
As the sun drips from my brow

Don't delay. Lift the standard higher
It will bring you here, my friend

Even now we're marching on

Say then when your spirit
Is carried away by God's hand
Will it tarry? Will you see us?
Will we understand the grander plan?

I'll be your forward guard leave me a life to inspire
That vengeful blockade has bested the valiant with time

Soon death will lose its barbs his rule is set to expire
This visitation was witnessed with life from that vine

But my heart is happy now
As the sun drips from my brow

Don't delay. Lift the standard higher
It will bring you here, my friend
Even now as you watch, on they march
But you know your heart can't join in
So you say I can wait for a sign but you don't know they'll come again

Even now we're marching on