What I Think About When You Say South Korea

[Verse 1]
Now and then, my dad would sometimes talk about Korea
In short bursts and anecdotes in a serious hour
Stories from a distance that I heard then as a young boy
Amongst the tall trees, at our house in the hills

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But these days it's been hard to talk about with him lately
Not like when we were kinds in Columbia, Missouri
That's what I think when you say South Korea, lately
That's why I think I have to go back again someday
And I'm thinking lately about it

[Verse 2]
Several years in the army, part of conscripted forces
Several years at the National University in Seoul
Heard a tale that my mom told me about the first thing that he said to her
Heard a story about a brother who had stayed behind in the war

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[Verse 3]
Some time in the '70s, he flew across the ocean to America
And left it all behind him then
I always wondered why he wanted to come here
I never even asked him about it

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