The Soldier

He stood his ground there on the frontlines The shadow of wars ahead would all unfold He shared scars from the battles all around us And here in the trenches, he's so cold. So cold He thinks The strangers come from beyond the horizon Bringing fear and always that same why; oh why And he's haunted by the ghosts of his past friends fallen Remember before when we could see the skies Now we're fighting for our lives Like he's been dying this whole time Oh, he feels he's seen the flames And felt that searing pain And in his eyes there are no tears And now he'll fight to keep it all the same And he'll lose himself one day He'll say it was worth it, but it appears He'll be another soldier's name In a soldier's grave And through the crowds and through all the broken lines He was ordered here to hold this landing place Seeing a face shocked with all this madness Faces blur as he runs moves past them All this fueled by hate He sinks And seeing monsters alive and ahead of him His ears ring, he does not hear a single thing And in his side a sharp pain In his mind the repeating voice of a liar He'll soldier on, take aim and open fire He'll take aim, he'll take aim, and open fire Oh, he feels he's seen the flames And felt that searing pain And in his eyes there are no tears And now he'll fight to keep it all the same And he'll lose himself one day, he'll say it was worth it But it appears he'll be another soldier's name In a soldier's grave