Cherry picking through the stars  And falling cannonballs  Waiting for the break of dawn  To start its morning crawl  Polluted rays of filtered light  Tropical and warm  Making shadows through  The snow white resin covered skulls    Happy birthday to the war    Standing by the wall  A rainbow made of stars  Under seven difference shades of grey  Spreading out across the arc  Days of wonder spent  Out there killing time  Now this may not leave a mark on me  But I sure as hell was there    Caravanning on the moonlit  Locust covered trail  We came out like a stream of bats  Exploding from the well  Slipping through the whirlpools  Of trees and floating cars  Behind winter coated mule  Down record breaking falls    Into olblivions open jaws    Standing by the wall  A rainbow made of stars  Under seven difference shades of grey  Spreading out across the arc  Days of wonder spent  Out there killing time  Now this may not leave a mark on me  But I sure as hell was there    Happy birthday to the war    Days of wonder spent  By a rainbow made of stars  Under seven different shades of grey  Spreading out across the arc  Standing by the wall  Out there killing time  Now this may not leave a mark on me  But I sure as hell was there    Educated under God  To walk a neutral line  Give me neither poverty  Nor riches in my time  Take my body and my mind  My heart is far behind  With one dozen poems in my ears  Ricocheting wild