Written by: Doug Scharley
Lyrics © D. R. Scharley Consulting Inc.


In the fields we are laying low
Weapons cocked we're breathing slow
Filled with fear for another fight
We hid all day to storm at night

The moment of truth has finally come
The enemy appears, ready for some
I hold my breath and pray to God
Bayonet fixed like the rest of my squad

(Chorus)
We go to war to right the wrongs
We fight for peace by dropping bombs
We'll stop evil dead in its tracks
The loss of life is just a fact
Our leaders yell they must be stopped
Cut off the head, it must be chopped
Life and death are now the same
They ship us off for this campaign


Our firepower cannot be matched
We light them up to be dispatched
The sounds of war cannot compare
The smell of death it fills the air

The battle ends with many dead
Bodies scattered in bloodshed
I left for war as just a boy
My innocence long since destroyed

(Chorus)
We go to war to right the wrongs
We fight for peace by dropping bombs
We'll stop evil dead in its tracks
The loss of life is just a fact
Our leaders yell they must be stopped
Cut off the head, it must be chopped
Life and death are now the same
They ship us off for this campaign


Scarred for life by what we've seen
It steels our hearts and fills our dreams
We know we're lucky to be alive
The friends we lost did not survive

The war is won so back we go
A shattered country left in woe
They fly us home, the paradox
Some in a seat, some in a box

(Chorus)
We go to war to right the wrongs
We fight for peace by dropping bombs
We'll stop evil dead in its tracks
The loss of life is just a fact
Our leaders yell they must be stopped
Cut off the head, it must be chopped
Life and death are now the same
They ship us off for this campaign


Looking back I wonder why
My friends and I were sent to die?
The fight for freedom has a cost
Weighed against the lives we lost

The leadership we overthrew
Raised again its life renewed
The problems never go away
The next campaign it starts today

(Chorus)
We go to war to right the wrongs
We fight for peace by dropping bombs
We'll stop evil dead in its tracks
The loss of life is just a fact
Our leaders yell they must be stopped
Cut off the head, it must be chopped
Life and death are now the same
They ship us off for this campaign







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