Dispatch - The General Lyrics

Me and my dad used to listen to this all the time drivin In his beat up car he is forgiven and he went

So glad Silent Steeples got a vinyl reissue 👍👍

2020, who is here?

2020 🥳🥳🥳🥳

2020 💜💜

3:21 is the PERFECT inspiration for writing the redemption arc of a character who is truly repentant.

Does anyone remember this song in a ipod touch game? It was probably around 2010 and was similar to gta

All who disliked, I’m coming for you, ya heartless pampered shits.

I listened to this while taking a shit

You awesome

Only 1M views? How? This is a national treasure

I'm 14 and I have to say , I thank my parents for showing me great music . This song is definitely brings back early memorys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-nwfAhODa0
Check this live cover

"go now you are forgiven"

I completely forgot about this song omg

This song is true.

This was my college anthem

Go now,you are forgiven.

Does anyone remember Mr. Kennedy? Pour guy what was he thinking

You've seen my mom? ...What was she wearing?

Buenas noches hombres

Yep,2019.

Why am I discovering this AWESOMENESS, until 2019?! Grateful, don't get me wrong, but still... Better late than never, I guess.

"This fight is not worth fighting" is very true

Makes me remember nausea

best camp song, best way to relive memories

what's up boo boo? Love you. Be good.

Grandpa off meds again

🎵🎶take a shower and drop a deuce 🎶🎵

Camp Takatoka anybody? 2018 and 2019 Staff member!

my mom used to sing this to me all the time and i would say "mom sing the one about the army guy" because i didnt know what a general was

Listened to this on the beach in North Carolina in 2006. Drinking bricks of Miller Lite for whatever reason. Good times on the beach

Haven't heard this since '05/'06 my neighbor, Johnny, would play this late summer nights, till I one day asked him about the music and he gifted me a mix CD/mp3. Miss those chill summer nights, when you can think and feel deep. Lovely, meaningful music!

“Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like fragile, tiny shells
Drifting in the foam
Little soldier boy
Come marching home
Brave soldier boy
Comes marching home”

-Iroh, *Avitar, The Last Airbender*

So many good memories with this song while spending time with my friends

Camp song 😍😭

WOW! I have heard this song before... but THIS is the first time I've heard it by decision!

Green woods camp anybody

GO NOW YOU ARE FORGIVEN

Take a shower, shine your shoes you got no time to loseYoung man you must be liven, go now you are forgiven!

This song sucks.

Robert Budzyna those are fighting words

Square up nerd

Never heard of this band or this song, and it just randomly started playing in my suggested feed. I'm glad it did!

Intro sounded immediately like Slash’s Hey Joe Hendrix cover

Captain America

All wars are based on lies.

Sometimes I love YouTubes recommended. I cant believe I haven't heard this before! It's awesome!

The proud boys should play this everytime antifa attacks trump supporters. Its not worth fighting antifa

2019!!???!😍😂😂😂😭

Fucking stupid writing 2019 for likes

OAR, this song and so many others bring up so much nostalgia

I remember listening to my friend George learn this on guitar in grade 9 .... 15 years later I still love this song

2020 now

Why TAKE this down

I was playing payback 1 and this came on

beautiful

Great song but what if the fight is worth fighting? Having learned by experience no soldier would leave his general or any comrade to fight a battle alone. The bond of brothers in arms is stronger than the will to save yourself. Again great song but I find it to be a sad song

Most wars are fought for unjust reasons. Comradery is a double edged sword because whilst it does help soldiers get through the atrocities they are likely to see, it can make them feel guilty for questioning things. It's not sad to suggest we should stop killing, it's sad to suggest killing is the only/best option.

There was a decorated General with a heart of gold
That likened him to all the stories he told
Of past battles won and lost and legends of old
A seasoned veteran in his own time
On the battlefield he gained respect for fame
With many metals of bravery and stripes to his name
He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face
And always urged his men on
But on the eve of great battle with the infantry and dream
The old general tossed in his sleep and wrestled with its meaning
He awoke from that night to tell what he had seen
And walked slowly out of his tent
All the men held tall with their chests in the air
With the courage in their blood and a fire in their stare
And it was a gray morning and they all wondered how they would fair
Till the old general told them to go home
He said
I have seen the others
And I have discovered
That this fight is not worth fighting
And I've have seen their mothers
And I will no other
To follow me where I'm going
So, take your shower, shine your shoes
You got no time to lose
You are young men, you must be living
Take your shower, shine your shoes
Well, you got no time to lose
You are young men, you must be living
Go now, you are forgiven
But the men stood fast with their guns on their shoulders
Not knowing what to do with the contradicting orders
The general said he would do his own duty but he would extend it no further
The men could go as they pleased
But not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead
Till one by one they stepped back and not a word was said
And the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head
He then prepared to fight
He said
I have seen the others
And I have discovered
That this fight is not worth fighting, no
And I've have seen their mothers
And I will no other
To follow me where I'm going
So, take your shower, shine your shoes
You got no time to lose
You are young men, you must be living, yeah
Take your shower, shine your shoes
Well, you got no time to lose
You are young men, you must be living
Go now you are forgiven
Go now, you are forgiven
Go now, you are forgiven
Go now, you are forgiven
Go
Go now, you are forgiven
Go now, you are forgiven
Go now, you are forgiven
Go
Go now, you are forgiven
Go now, you are forgiven
Go now, got to be, got to be, got to be, got to be, got to be, hey (go now you are forgiven)

Thank you. Legend.
I know you can always find it on google but this was handy. God bless

Love this song. Gives me chills

This makes me sad. “You’re young men, you must be living” = best lyric.

I turned a friend in the military onto the Tragically Hip, he gave me a burned disc that said dispatch. I was for once, impressed.✖️🔘➖💲➕🎶🎵➰

This song helped me through my dark times, fresh out of the military with a debilitating spine injury, medically retired at 22 years old, and on pain meds for the rest of my life. I hit rock bottom when I lost feeling in my leg. This song took me through memory lane, listened to it with my best friend before he went to Afghanistan, and when he left I was lost. This song kept me through. Then we both got out the service, moved into together, I had a daughter with my current girlfriend, he moved out. We are brothers, but I sure do miss having someone who knew me before life/the military beat me up. Before I felt helpess and hopeless. But we talk daily, and we're both doing well, he's my daughters Nino, and he showed me this song. Love that guy, closer to him than my real brothers.

Appreciate your service

Probably should have saved yourself the misery and not joined the military

Anthony Carranza Thank you for your service.God bless you and your family!

Anwar Stanzi I take that statement as a sign of disrespect. His sacrifice made it so you can enjoy life comfortably. Not everyone is selfish and spares their misery

awesome love it

I'm glad to see this song getting more and more views as time goes on! Really underappreciated song!

This is so beautiful, and it never gets old!

This song makes me think of the Christmas Truce of WW1, when British and German soldiers emerged from their trenches during Christmas Day. For one day, the fighting stopped, and the men sang, drank, and played soccer together. The next day, the fighting resumed. One soldier wrote in his diary of that day: "Never was I so keenly aware of the insanity of the war." I have seen the others, and I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting...

Last Man Standing?!??

I thought it was? Pretty sure there is a few direct quotes in the lyrics from a recovered journal. Now I gotta look this up again.

Awesome story! I love learning little tidbits like this... Such a powerful story, yet so short.

Another phenomenal anti war novel is Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

Good comment!

And yet people still kill other people cause someone told someone else too

Horrible

I respect your opinion and such, but why do you dislike the song?

An awesome song, that is all I can say.

Strange how groups like this slightly stupid OAR the dirty heads never really took off huge like not many people Canada no groups like this. I guess it’s like the hip the trews groups like that. Like talent means fuck all in the music world

I was listening to Trampled by Turtles radio on Pandora and this came on. Haven’t heard it in many years but I will be having it for breakfast daily. Made me think of my children and the choices one makes on their journey through life. To my babies... You are young and you must be living go now you are always forgiven 🙏✌️

Such a beautiful comment!! And also, I love Trampled By Turtles!!

The Troll population is at 310. Trolls like mating to this song. Who in their right mind would dislike this song? It brings me back to my early 20s when life was so much simpler.

Listening to this song on a 10 strip rn and the inter dimensional beans I’m chillin with fuck with it

Amazing song Dispatch come back

BANG BANG

This song has always given me chills.

This band was so far ahead of their time.

<3 Anyone recommend songs like this?

Love this song...prolly my favorite Dispatch tune....I liked it so much i learned to play it on guitar...not too tricky...and a blast to play! Great band..one of those rare bands that you can just turn on in ANY situation, with ANY group of people, regardless of their musical preference...Dispatch just fits in every music collection for any individual. They're impossible to not like.

i see...

This song was always played to my bunk at camp and it brings back so many memories

Benjamin Weisman Gfc

Benjamin Weisman It was a huge hit at my summer camp in New Hampshire

Amazing distraction from bad attitudes

Whoever wrote the lyrics to this song is a fucking genius....Plain and simple...The lyrics are on another level....Its absolutely insane

This song makes me think of my friend Pete Confalone who died of an overdose in 2006. He was the first friend I ever had to who died. His funeral was standing room only. We loved this song we knew all the words and used to belt it in his old Buick. At his funeral his sister referenced this song and ended his eulogy “go now you are forgiven”

Blessings bro 🙏

Dangit another friend lost. Anyone who loves this song is one of mine. But there are other worlds at least

Your a great friend. Thanks for sharing. Honestly very touching

Sorry friend for your loss.
Next time you see him ( and you will ) give him a big O hug.

My friend Joe died of a drug overdose months after my brother took his life, the line "go now you are forgiven" repeating is powerful lyrics

I grew up on this song with my friends, one of the first truly good song I learned on the guitar.

I hadn't heard this song in 15 years until a few hours ago at the bar. I missed it!

This song is so good

Taking responsibility of getting this song to 1m views.

This shit is money

Thank you for this song

In 4 school homework assignments

I agree with the moral of the story here. It holds with the same story as all quite on the western front. A soldier who was brought up to think he was different, learns thats they are just like him and are suffering just like him.

Excuse my French but all 479 of y'all who disliked this song can suck it.

I haven't listened to this in years. Reminds me of the hopeful person I used to be.

270 people missed the like button

Heard this at camp love it

Needs to be 1,000,000. I've got work to do.

It's sad this song doesn't have millions of veiws!

It got there!

Heard this first from my camp counselor in 2000ish.

oh shit....same yo.....outward bound...hiking and self reliance....and dispatch/jack johnsonm lololol

Ilya Kourzakov At a residential summer camp that I work at we sing this song at every last night campfire. All of the staff and campers love it.

Camp takotoka

Brooke albert I work there and this is one of my favorite things that we do there.

Nice song and great guitar work. really states a story and one of my new favorite bands and songs so good job.

this is the only thang that makes me feel better right now. and ive seen their mothers lol