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A Perfect Soldier

from Continue Anyways by Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon

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This song is about a scene in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan. I stole a bunch of lines from that book. Read Kurt Vonnegut, he's the best.

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Ignore feeling. Don't search for meaning. Resist thinking there is a meaning. Don't ask too many questions where answers aren't to be found. You're much too good a soldier. A soldier's knowledge isn't supposed to be round. Don't try to remember, that's what made you sick in the first place. A soldier that remembers isn't worth his weight. Ten thousand men in uniform gather around to witness my hands around his neck, a face that's turning blue. As the life left his eyes our daily lives resumed. For the first time in his life the soldier failed to come to attention, not because he didn't want to, but because the soldier was already dead.

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from Continue Anyways, released November 11, 2011

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