The War Came Home · Track 09

The Man Behind the Startle

It separates involuntary reaction from character and insists that tenderness, faith, fatherhood, and identity still exist beyond the body’s alarm.

Why this song exists As the closing chapter of The War Came Home, it follows “When I Close My Eyes” and gives the album’s wound / the soldier returns arc its final response to the question, “Why is the war still here when the war is over?”