Every Nameless Soldier Every soldier feels they fight for what is right Every soldier feels their side holds all the might Until that day when soldier meets soldier on the field Well, then soldier gets a glimpse of what is real All the soldier sees is blood Gushing from bodies like a grotesque flood Yet the soldier ain't got no time to grieve It's man-eat-man and soldier can't leave Until it's over and the dead have been counted Telegrams sent and casualties mounted The soldier sees philosophy's worth shit So many times the soldiers are worst-hit Young kids with fighting passion blazing in their eyes Return, and then that fighting passion slowly dies They see their buddies gone and then it hits 'em That this ain't playin' and nobody's winnin' A bloody field stripped of all its green Is all that's left as proof of misery They fight the enemy with increasing bitterness Before them dance the ghosts of their best friends Revenge is sworn, eternal hate is vowed Yet even worse that all this is allowed Some are so young, too young to hate so much Equally wrong are those who teach them such Yet even without old to guide the way Soon or later every soldier'd say "I'm gonna get the motherfuckin' bitch Let's see 'em get a taste of -this-" The missile whistles, the bomb is dropped A single soldier laughs, a town shell-shocked Their enemies are soldiers with no faces and no lives Their enemies are creatures without families or wives Their enemies are epitomes of all ultimate evil Their enemies can never be considered people And on the other side, the hatred is the same The bitter realization that war is not a game Leads soldiers to commit inhuman acts Makes them believe that cruelty is a fact Yet fight they must, to shield humanity from pain Letting their fellows' blood run down like rain Across the war-torn field and sky Inside, every soldier spats out "why" They never gain an answer, dontcha know The only reply is a weapon's ruthless blow The only emotion is a twisting of ideals A process which a soldier cannot shield A snarling hurt a soldier cannot nurse Acknowledging it only makes it worse So to save their minds they step out and they die Leaving the world with a silent painful cry For the cycle to stop, for no one else to leave For the young to live and be free For the right to befriend a foe For humanity to learn their goddamned lesson, be it slow A dying soldier takes no sides A dying soldier doesn't cry A dying soldier wants the world to see A chance that died before it could be free The nameless soldier - Me.