Empty Hands and Broad Shoulders

All those years of blood

Sweat and tears you cried

You’ve got less to show

Than you have to hide

Lady luck and all her charms

I never known her

I’m just a man with empty hands and broad shoulders

You could have had a wife

Instead you made a name

The monuments you built

Look smaller by the day

She took you back, you kissed her lips

But they were colder

You’re just a man with empty hands and broad shoulders

The brother that you mock

For knowing wrong from right

Just went off to war

He won’t get out alive

He was a son, he was a friend

He was a soldier

You’re just a man with empty hands and broad shoulders