Mourning Heroes

歌詞

From the time I was born to the time they came home Answered the call to their duties were sworn They gave up there youth in search of the truth You can see in their eyes the lives left behind Sleep overtakes me again The nightmare returns, it will not end Relive the scene every night Friends that call just out of sight Eternal flame now guides their way An unknown man, an unknown grave Passage of time kills the pain A single white cross, a solitary name Some were left there on the field Some came home, but were never there Wandering some foreign land A lonely imprint on a mountain of sand Is this what's meant to be A thousand souls haunt my memories A silent prayer whispered in haste And the faces like light begin to fade From the barbed wire belly crawl, horrors of Buchenwald, nightmares I've seen them all Fall of Saigon, rage of Pusan, memories of Mylai and Vietcong - Honor the fallen at Midway, battle the Bulge in Ardennes - Trailing the tears to heaven's gate The pain of those will never end From out fathers in the west, sons in the east Bare the burden of the free Our mothers and wives, gripping the lives Of husbands, sons, framed in memories Blood on the shores of liberty, riding the surge of sand dogs Into the teeth of the devil's jaw, is this a means to the end With our fathers we won't stand alone like brothers in arms We face the unknown