The Thin Wall
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Complete, First published Mar 30, 2015
A look into the often unknown world of what it is like to be a modern day air cadet, and the trials a cadet faces.
This account is a year in the life of an air cadet, in the summer that everything changed forever and had a devastating effect on my life.
Be warned that the truths exposed here are not for the faint hearted, and that graphic detail is to follow.

The sound is on the visions move
 The image dance starts once again
 They shuffle with a bovine grace
 And glide in syncopation

Just living lines from books we've read
 With atmospheres of days gone by
 With paper smiles the screenplay calls
 A message for the nation

And those who sneer will fade and die
 And those who laugh will surely fall
 And those who know will always feel
 Their backs against the thin wall
 The thin wall, thin wall

Old men who speak of victory
 Shed light upon their stolen life
 They drive by night and act as if they're
 Moved by unheard music

To step in time and play the part
 With velvet voices smooth and cold
 Their power games a game no more
 And long the chance to use it

And those who sneer will fade and die
 And those who laugh will surely fall
 And those who know will always feel
 Their backs against the thin wall
 The thin wall, thin wall

And those who dance will spin and turn
 And those who wait will wait no more
 And those talk will hear the word

And those who sneer will fade and die
 And those who laugh will surely fall
 And those who know will always feel
 Their backs against the thin wall

 Thin wall

And those who dance
 The thin wall
 And those who wait
 The thin wall
 And those who talk
 The thin wall

And those who sneer
 The thin wall
 And those who laugh
 The thin wall
 And those who know
 The thin wall

And those who dance
 The thin wall
 And those who wait...

Song choice: Ultravox- The Thin Wall
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