Eagle Scout To Killer

<p class=ql-align-center>A soldiers despair</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>Take a man then put him alone.</p><p class=ql-align-center>Put him 12000 miles from home.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>Empty his heart of all but blood</p><p class=ql-align-center>Make him live in sweat and mud.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>This is the life I have to live.</p><p class=ql-align-center>And Why my soul to the devil I give.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>You don't know what it's like over here.</p><p class=ql-align-center>You have your parties and drink your beer.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>You have a ball without even trying.</p><p class=ql-align-center>While over here boys are dying.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>You burn your draft cards march at dawn.</p><p class=ql-align-center>Plant your signs on the White House lawn.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>You want to ban the bomb.</p><p class=ql-align-center>There's no real war in Vietnan.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>Use your drugs and have your fun.</p><p class=ql-align-center>And then refuse to carry a gun.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>There's nothing else for you to do.</p><p class=ql-align-center>And I am supposed to die for you!</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>There's one thing that you don't know.</p><p class=ql-align-center>That is where I think you should go.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>I am already here and it's too late.</p><p class=ql-align-center>I've traded all my love for hate.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>I'll hate you til the day I die.</p><p class=ql-align-center>You made my buddy cry and die.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>I saw his arm a bloody shred.</p><p class=ql-align-center>I hear them say this one is dead.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>It's a large price to have to pay.</p><p class=ql-align-center>And not live another day.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>He had the guts to fight and die...</p><p class=ql-align-center>But by him dying what did he buy?</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>By dying your life he buys.</p><p class=ql-align-center>But who cares if a soldier dies.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>His wife and maybe his sons.</p><p class=ql-align-center>But they are the only ones.</p><p></p>