Army Corps of Engineers

First April without you
I went down to the bridge
I gathered all my ghosts and threw them in
The Army Corps of Engineers
They built that canal
You told me all about it when I was ten
Some things you never get used to
Some things you cannot learn to love
But this too will pass away
Like your breath on a window
On a cold winter’s day
Like a radio signal down a long highway
This too is gonna pass away
The day you left for Baghdad
We stood along the road
And you promised you’d come home in one piece
I know that you tried to make it true
But first I lost you
Then you lost me
Some things you never get used to
Some things you cannot learn to love
But this too will pass away
Like your breath on a window
On a cold winter’s day
Like a radio signal down a long highway
This too is gonna pass away
The sound of your voice
When you tell me it’s all right
And waking in the night with you beside me
Turning on the radio
As loud as it’ll go
As we drive out to a show on fifty-three
The way you tell me I’m your girl
And the way you sing when you know every word
This too will pass away
Like your breath on a window
On a cold winter’s day
Like a radio signal down a long highway
This too is gonna pass away