Soldier

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Omnivorous: Classic rock to elevator to folk-rock. Melodic ballads, instrumentals and hillbilly meth-head psychedelia. Sometimes political, but no attitude.

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Song Info

Genre

Rock • Classic Rock

Charts

Peak #209

Peak in subgenre #23

Uploaded

February 11, 2016

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.2 MB • 160 kbps • 6:16

Lyrics

He wasn't a warrior, oh no, he was only a soldier
He had no illusions, no delusions of what he was fighting for
Just a grim, unspoken wish to stay alive

His only ambition was doing the job they had given him
He was a watcher of gates, keeping every dark evil from getting in
And vigilantly holding back the night

How do you know when the war is done?
How can you tell if you've prevailed or if the other side's won?
Where do you turn to learn the truth
Who can you trust to give you some incontrovertible proof
Of the good you have done?

Out there in the darkness, past the lights and the wire that was no man's land
There lay an angry dark evil, driven mad by a hate he'd never understand
But they'd never cross his little patch of sand

As he stood in the cold rain, he imagined that he was back home again
Surrounded by voices so familiar he knew every one of them
But he never heard the shot that pierced his brain

How do you know when the war is done?
(What if this has only just begun?)
How can you tell if you've prevailed or if the other side's won?
Where do you turn to learn the truth
Who can you trust to give you some incontrovertible proof
Of the good you have done?

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