Friends In The Armed Forces - thursday

[00:00.88]Friends In The Armed Forces - Thursday
[00:29.06]There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight
[00:34.17]It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar
[00:39.72]And if you try to speak your mind
[00:42.72]They tell you keep it to yourself
[00:44.54]You got friends in the armed forces
[00:50.37]They wanna know which side you're on
[00:52.0]Doesn't matter cause we'll all be off
[00:55.68]To train to fight
[00:58.34]Disregard our human rights
[01:00.44]To play the part
[01:03.26]The consciense of the damned
[01:05.62]You say you're defending me
[01:09.64]I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons
[01:13.25]Praying not to see
[01:15.44]Another folded flag to a mourning lover
[01:20.79]He was an army of one but they'll find another
[01:26.46]And in the fold of the body bag
[01:28.95]Somebody check for a heart
[01:30.39]You got friends in the armed forces
[01:33.31]Now we know what a soldier costs
[01:40.22]It's the cost of the rest of us
[01:43.66]To take a life
[01:45.64]We all have our price
[01:48.03]The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds
[01:52.16]You say you're defending me
[01:56.97]I'm untying yellow ribbons
[01:59.61]On every single tree I see
[02:06.45]They'll float like butterflies back home
[02:13.58]And I can feel the desert's heat
[02:16.51]When you're standing next to me
[02:19.39]Friendship offers no relief
[02:22.91]Stay with me now just hear me out
[02:26.57]Don't want to lose you to that great black cloud
[02:30.14]Coming down
[02:33.55]You see in the path a bullet makes
[02:37.32]When it calls you by your name
[02:39.72]And the medic can't play the rythym of your heart
[02:47.41]So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march
[02:51.14]The parade passes by our fingertips
[02:57.69]As lives once were right
[03:00.39]To change our minds
[03:04.1]Everything that's wrong looks right
[03:09.45]The lives we lead
[03:11.76]Are somewhere in between
[03:38.17]You say you're defending me
[03:41.12]I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons
[03:44.25]Praying not to see
[03:45.88]We're not going to hell
[03:51.83]To run rings around a wishing well