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The Final Flight of Lightning Five

Preflight’s done
The war’s begun
Let the bombs and bullets fly
The final flight
To make things right
Said the hero of the skies

It’s time to forget
The notion of home
You take only photos and leave only stones
Lightning Five
Won’t come back alive
But I know he’ll hold his own
Just a ghost among the stones...

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