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Steel boots press down on volcanic sand
Black flags tear through the salt-wind's hand
Pencils worn down to splinters and bone
Scratching words they'll never call their own
Notes tucked tight to mothers and dads
Photos folded in rusted tin cans
Faces they left in their homeland's hands
Each line a whisper against the roar
Each word carved out on a distant shore
They wrote of love they couldn't say aloud
Before the tide swallowed the ground
These are letters from Iwo Jima's shore
Where the grey waves crashed and roared
Ink mixed with rain and soldier's sweat
"Tell them I loved them with my last breath"
"Take care now... don't wait for me"
No more miles across the sea
Let these words find their way home
Hills hid friend and foe the same
Every step was a prayer for safe ground
A folk song hummed in foxhole dark
A rhythm for every broken heart
Hands that gripped a rifle tight
Still reached for peace in the middle of the fight
Each line a whisper against the roar
Each word carved out on a distant shore
They wrote of love they couldn't say aloud
Before the tide swallowed the ground
These are letters from Iwo Jima's shore
Where the grey waves crashed and roared
Ink mixed with rain and soldier's sweat
"Tell them I loved them with my last breath"
"Take care now... don't wait for me"
No more miles across the sea
Let these words find their way home
They didn't want to leave their door
Didn't want to stand alone anymore
Friend to friend, across the divide
Their hope lives on in every line
So let us carry what they wrote
Build a bridge where the silence broke
Let their stories tie our hands as one
These are letters from Iwo Jima's shore
Carried by waves forevermore
Ink mixed with rain and soldier's sweat
"Tell them I loved them with my last breath"
"To my mother... to my dad" - hear them call
No more distance, no more fall
Let these words find their way home...
Letters from the shore...
Love forevermore...
Find their way home...