Released: October 11, 2019
Songwriter: Alec Benjamin
Producer: Alec Benjamin
[Verse 1]
The old colonel was a veteran
Each night he'd take his medicine
And stay up watchin’ Letterman
Trying to forget
The things he saw when he was young
The carnage and the sound of guns
He kept his pain from everyone
With the ink inside his pen
[Chorus]
The colonel kept a journal of his troubles and regrets
His battles were internal, raging wars inside his head
'Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
The colonel kept a journal and he left it in a box
Buried in the basement underneath some dirty socks
’Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
[Verse 2]
And the day he died, his kids flew in
Took some time just to remember him
They cleaned up his old medicine
As everybody wept
They were packing up the cellar
When they found his diary, read it and
Couldn't believe the things he said
With the ink inside his pen
[Chorus]
The colonel kept a journal of his troubles and regrets
His battles were internal, raging wars inside his head
'Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
The colonel kept a journal and he left it in a box
Buried in the basement underneath some dirty socks
'Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
[Bridge]
Mmmm-mmm
Mmmm-mmm
[Verse 3]
The old colonel was a veteran
My granddad, and a gentleman
I'll always remember him
Oh, I swear I won’t forget
The things he saw when he was young
The carnage and the sound of guns
And the pain he kept from everyone
With the ink inside his pen
[Chorus]
The colonel kept a journal of his troubles and regrets
His battles were internal, raging wars inside his head
’Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
The colonel kept a journal and he left it in a box
Buried in the basement underneath some dirty socks
’Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
[Outro]
Mmmm-mmm
Mmmm-mmm
The old colonel was a veteran
Each night he'd take his medicine
And stay up watchin’ Letterman
Trying to forget
The things he saw when he was young
The carnage and the sound of guns
He kept his pain from everyone
With the ink inside his pen
[Chorus]
The colonel kept a journal of his troubles and regrets
His battles were internal, raging wars inside his head
'Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
The colonel kept a journal and he left it in a box
Buried in the basement underneath some dirty socks
’Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
[Verse 2]
And the day he died, his kids flew in
Took some time just to remember him
They cleaned up his old medicine
As everybody wept
They were packing up the cellar
When they found his diary, read it and
Couldn't believe the things he said
With the ink inside his pen
[Chorus]
The colonel kept a journal of his troubles and regrets
His battles were internal, raging wars inside his head
'Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
The colonel kept a journal and he left it in a box
Buried in the basement underneath some dirty socks
'Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
[Bridge]
Mmmm-mmm
Mmmm-mmm
[Verse 3]
The old colonel was a veteran
My granddad, and a gentleman
I'll always remember him
Oh, I swear I won’t forget
The things he saw when he was young
The carnage and the sound of guns
And the pain he kept from everyone
With the ink inside his pen
[Chorus]
The colonel kept a journal of his troubles and regrets
His battles were internal, raging wars inside his head
’Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
The colonel kept a journal and he left it in a box
Buried in the basement underneath some dirty socks
’Til the end, he was a soldier
'Cause the fight was never over
[Outro]
Mmmm-mmm
Mmmm-mmm
Unreleased Songs
- Settle Down
- At The Bottom (Demo)
- Smile When You’re Sad
- Cause it Hurts
- Stranger to Myself
- Stranger to Myself (demo)
- TSS
- TSS (demo)
- Lock me up for Life
- On Your Speakers
- Miss Her The Most (Demo)
- Balancing Game (Demo)
- The Way You Felt in My Arms
- The Hill I Will Die On (Demo)
- The Hill I Will Die On
- The Colonel’s Journal
- Her Broken Hearted Savior*
- Anesthesia
- The Wolf and the Sheep
- Gabriel
- Our Love is Like a Burning Garden
- Now She’s Getting Married
- Last of Her Kind
- Journey to the Lowest Place on Earth
- O.I.N.V.
- Pretending
- The Knife in my Back
- Worst Day Of My Life
- My Mother’s Eyes
- Use Me
- “Simple Song” (tour song)
- The Saddest Song
- Must’ve been the wind
- Let Me Down Slowly
- Water Fountain
- Outrunning Karma
- I Built a Friend
- If We Have Each Other
- Boy In The Bubble
- Mind is a Prison
- If I Killed Someone For You
- Pretending
- The Knife in my Back
- Must Have Been the Wind
- Paper Crown
- Jesus in LA
- The Wolf and the Sheep
- Six Feet Apart
- Worst Day Of My Life
- Death of a Hero
- Steve
- Oh My God
- Annabelle’s Homework
- Let Me Down Slowly (Remix)
- Demons
- The Book of You & I
- Gotta Be A Reason