We were the children of 45
loaded like pistols
and taught how to die
We looked the enemy
straight in the eye
(and never surrender)
Through trenches dug
in the back of mt mind
I go over the top
time after time
Me and the ones
we left behind
(Faces I'll never remember)
Now there's no fight
left within me
of this wrong
As nations
we're divided
but as people
we are one
Like brothers in blood
it seems
that we've been
too long a soldier
in the city of monuments
Among the flags of all governments
The order of battle
is written in
the shadows
of a hard black line
Where people cry
for a nation's scars
and heros sleep
beneath a blanket of stars
Too young to die
but never too old too play
the general's game
Now there's no life
left within them
But the memory
lingers on
As nation's we're divided
But as people we are one
For brother's in blood
We sing
that we've been
too long a soldier
Eternal flames blow
in the wind
I've been too long a soldier
captain of the guard
I'm coming in
Too long too long
a soldier
I've seen so much worth dying for
so little
worth killing over
Eternal flamesblow
in the wind
I've been too a soldier
captain of the guard
i'm coming in
Too long too long
a soldier
I've seen so much worth dying for
so little
worth killing over
Soldiers gone before me
i will surely fade away
My eyes have seen the glory
And the suffering and the pain
I've been too long a soldier
Too long too long a soldier
I've been too long a soldier
(Too long a soldier)
Eternal flames blow in the wind
(Too long a soldier)
My eyes have seen the glory of
(Too long a soldier)
oh say can you see by the
dawns early light
