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Steve Earle

Steve Earle ( /ˈɜrl/; born Stephen Fain Earle on January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle grew up near San Antonio, Texas, and began learning the guitar at age 11. more »

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2006

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This is the best time of the day?the dawn 
The final cleansing breath unsullied yet 
By acrid fume or death?s cacophony 
The rank refuse of unchained ambition 
And pray, deny me not but know me now, 
Your faithful retainer stands resolute 
To serve his liege lord without recompense 
Perchance to fall and perish namelessly 
No flag-draped bier or muffled drum to set 
The cadence for a final dress parade 
But it was not always thus?remember? 
Once you worshipped me and named me a god 
In many tongues and made offering lest 
I exact too terrible a tribute 

Take heed for I am weary, ancient 
And decrepit now and my time grows short 
There are no honorable frays to join 

Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs 
Or horror unleashed from across oceans 
Assail me not with noble policy 
For I care not at all for platitude 
And surrender such tedious detail 
To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues 
Singular in their purpose and resolve 
And presuming to speak for everyman 

Oh, for another time, a distant field 
And there a mortal warrior?s lonely grave 
But duty charges me remain until 
The end the last battle of the last war 
Until that ?morrow render unto me 
That which is mine my stipend well deserved 
The fairest flower of your progeny 
Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams 
The cruel consequence of your conceit

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