Anderson's Luck - Jackopierce

It was Anderson’s luck that found him outside the city

Eating bully-beef and drinking the weak coffee

And it was Anderson’s luck that held him out for this long

From the city he smelled wood smoke and wondered how she did alone

At night she huddles tight around the wood stove

Listening to radio free, waiting for the distant low sounds

Of the big guns waking up for the evening

And it’s just a nuisance, a shame that she’s used to it

Winter’s on now

He’s been months down

To the fighting for the city

She plays a mean game of hide and seek through the back streets

She makes a careful way past frozen eyes under dirty sheets

She knows the moment when it comes, ain’t nothing more than pure luck

A great blinding instant then you rise up above it all

Winter’s on now

How much longer

Can she hold out in the city

People open wide your eyes to this day dawning

People open wide your arms to your brothers

People open wide your eyes to what’s going on

And pray, yeah

It was Anderson’s luck to be there when it happened

He was on a short leave, they drank weak coffee by the wood stove

As the low moan of cannon came calling from the mountains

Perhaps they heard the shot come knocking on their door

Winter’s on now

There ain’t no wood anyhow

They laid them under dirty sheets

The ten o’clock news is on

In the mouth of the mountains the city lies still under siege

My wife reads quiet at the firelight

I turn it off, step outside for wood from a fallen tree

Winter’s on now

I got coffee on

My kids sleep safely in the city

Winter’s on now

There ain’t no wood anyhow

They laid them out under dirty sheets

And pray for the lucky ones

And pray for the lucky ones