SOLDIERS ------------------------------------------------------ Do you remember holding gaslight girls and laughing Up against the damp basement doors Like another who's just begun, You turn the page, the learning's done You follow, but there is no golden shore I can well believe that you have suffered greatly The less you have the more it hurts to lose And I see every side of every question asking why It'll never be as tender or as true Half the time we were saying much of nothing But we sang as best we could for all to hear The river swelling to a crest Mars dancing in the west Left to wonder was it love or was it fear We've both been robbed of our youth and of our beauty Stuck between the locked jaws of the bitch I never knew just what it was that a real soldier does Till my own blood ran through the ditch Strike three blows down hard on the table Hey barmaid! Bring us a pitcher and a glass I pray that we live and that we learn to forgive Find the solace and the strength to make it last [repeat first verse]