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TOO LONG A SOLDIER - Pat Benatar
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Written by: N.Geraldo, M.Grombacher
CD: "Wide Awake In Dreamland" (1988, Chrysalis Records)
INTRO:
(2x)
1ST VERSE:
We were the children of '45
Loaded like pistols and taught how to die
We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrendered)
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)
CHORUS:
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
2ND VERSE:
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 nation's scars
And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars
Too young to die, but never too old to play the General's game
CHORUS:
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
BRIDGE:
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
BREAK:
(play progression 2x)
BRIDGE:
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 dawn's early light
Oooh, ooh, ooh
Oooh, ooh, ooh...
(fade on this progression)
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