Lyrics Dear Soldier.lrc Shawn James
[id: pshjvxps]
[ar: Shawn James]
[al: Deliverance]
[ti: Dear Soldier]
[length: 03:40]
[00:17.15]Who am I to say what’s right or wrong
[00:26.14]But who are you to pull the trigger on their enemy
[00:35.10]Young man joined the front lines to still his stormy soul
[00:44.29]Now all that’s left are the memories of old
[00:53.22]They all fall down
[00:57.78]Some won’t survive
[01:02.25]Trying to escape
[01:06.72]The memory of what they became
[01:11.31]I tried hard to be proud of my service
[01:14.02]But, all I could feel was Shame
[01:16.79]The racism could no longer mask
[01:17.67]The reality of the occupation
[01:19.45]These were people
[01:20.34]These were human beings
[01:22.11]I feel guilt any time I see a mother with her children
[01:23.95]Like the one who cried hysterically
[01:26.60]And screamed that we were worse than Saddam
[01:28.48]As we forced her from her home
[01:30.26]I feel guilt any time I see a young girl
[01:32.08]Like the one I grabbed by the arm
[01:34.74]And dragged into the street
[01:36.58]We were told we were fighting terrorists
[01:39.22]The real terrorist was me
[01:41.15]And the real terrorism was this occupation
[01:43.86]Who am I to say what’s right or wrong
[01:51.91]But who are you to pull the trigger on their enemy
[02:00.05]Young man joined the front lines to still his stormy soul
[02:08.15]Now all that’s left are the memories of war
[02:16.33]They all fall down
[02:20.88]Some won’t survive
[02:24.44]Trying to escape the memories of what they became
[02:32.59]They all fall down
[02:37.93]Some won’t survive
[02:43.44]Trying to escape the memories of what they became
[02:53.38]While those weapons are created and owned by this government
[02:56.05]They are harmless without people willing to use them
[02:57.83]Those who send us to war
[02:59.63]Do not have to pull a trigger or lob a mortar round
[03:02.38]They do not have to fight the war
[03:04.15]They merely have to sell the war
[03:05.95]They need a public whose willing to send their soldiers into harms way
[03:08.67]They need soldiers willing to kill and be killed without question
[03:11.32]Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen
[03:15.91]Have nothing to gain from this occupation
[03:17.71]The vast majority of people living in the U.S.
[03:19.54]Have nothing to gain from this occupation
[03:22.26]In fact not only do we have nothing to gain
[03:24.92]But we suffer more because of it
[03:26.72]We lose limbs
[03:27.63]Endure trauma
[03:28.51]And give our lives
[03:30.37]Our families have to watch flag draped coffins lowered into the earth
[03:33.92]Year of Release: 2014