Too Long A Soldier

Album: Wide Awake In Dreamland (1988)
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  • 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 my mind
    I go over the top time after time
    Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember)

    Now there's no fight left within me, but the writing 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 nations scars
    And heros sleep beneath a blanket of stars
    Too young to die, but never too old to play the general's game

    Now there's no life left within them, but the memory lingers on
    As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
    For brothers 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

    Hey, Hey
    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
    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
    Oooh, Ooh, Ooh
    Oooh, Ooh, Ooh Writer/s: MYRON GROMBACHER, NEIL GIRALDO
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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