Before That Flag Was Folded

by Kyle Thomas Nunn

Kyle Thomas Nunn is the epitome of a Full Time Sinner Part Time Saint, which is not so coincidentally the name of his debut album. He's a bourbon chugging country rocker who isn't afraid to get more than a little wild, but knows where he'll be on Sunday morning. Kyle has taken his Kentucky farm ro…



There’s a drawer, In a dresser, 
That I ain’t opened in years
Filled with pictures, filled with memories, 
That fill my eyes with tears
And there’s a case, that holds a flag, 
There’s a uniform and dog tags
All I’ve got left of, the man, 
who didn’t come back from Afghanistan 

Take me back before the war, before the bullets
Before the finger found the trigger and pulled it
Before my world exploded
Take me back to that summer 2003
On the tailgate sittin’ just Daddy and me
Before my heart was broken
Before that flag was folded

His heart was home, but not his mind, 
The hell he’d seen was with him all the time
So much hurt, hidden in his eyes, 
I tried to hide the pain in mind
He’d just come back, going back again, 
Said he couldn’t just leave his men
They’re just boys, but then so was I, 
Never dreamed that man would die

Take me back before the war, before the bullets
Before the finger found the trigger and pulled it
Before my world exploded
Take me back to that summer 2003
On the tailgate sittin’ just Daddy and me
Before my heart was broken
Before that flag was folded

Take me back before the war, before the bullets
Before the finger found the trigger and pulled it
Before my world exploded
Take me back to that summer 2003
On the tailgate sittin’ just Daddy and me
Before my heart was broken
Before that flag was folded

Take me back before the war, before the bullets
Before the finger found the trigger and pulled it
Before my world exploded
Take me back to that summer 2003
On the tailgate sittin’ just Daddy and me
Before my heart was broken
Before that flag was folded

There’s a drawer, in a dresser, that I ain’t opened in years

Written by: Kyle Thomas Nunn & Sulcer Evans

Submitted by: kyle_t on August 15, 2018

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