Finest Hour

A peaceful calm surrounds me

As darkness falls down on me

In what may be the finest hour of my life

I'm staring at a photo

Beneath an amber sunset halo

Of a beautiful woman I made my wife

A white gown surrounds her

As my arms lay wrapped around her

In the finest hour of my life

Now with me in the trenches

Beneath the barbed wire ringed fences

Are the virgin young white faces of angels

Who's hearts are quickly beating

As machine guns keep repeating

Death is not retreating, it's closing in

Each man waits in silence

A vigil in the violence 

His finger on the trigger of a gun

But inward he's dreaming

Through one last chance screening

In the finest hour of his life

We cut the wedding cake

Behind an old church by a lake

On a crystal clear May Day

As everyone we loved

Joined to celebrate our love

And we gave ourselves to god above

If I'm laid down into silence

Discharged from the violence

Onto a bed of frozen angels in the snow

With the last of my heart's beating

It is you that I'll be seeing

In the finest hour of my life