Ballad of a Wartime Hero

Ballad of a Wartime Hero

Lost in the wilderness

Trapped in a circle of death

Pray we don't lose many

Hope we still have time left

 

Crawling out with the trees

Calling out all I know

Death flies by in the breeze

Along with all mortal souls

 

The enemy is coming in

There's nothing we can do

Stand proud and stand tall

Only the fortunate few

 

Haze drawn up under breath

Can't look and see

Blinded by all the death

All this to be free

 

Trapped into another world

Where people turn unto themselves

Faith begins and ends here

Along with about everything else

 

Praying for my wife and kids

Hoping to see another day

For everyone I haven't met

Least comes the day when all this goes away

 

We came a long way

Only to meet survival

Killing for a living

Living for a revival

 

A sane man will die

An insane man will die as well

Nothing is safe here

When we are all trapped in hell

 

Over and over it goes

Another one down with everyone else

Forever with never it knows

Death spins round like nothing you've ever felt

 

As we creep

As it creeps

The days go by

Who we be

Who is he

As angels have to die

 

Opening up my heart of stone

Leaving nobody here alone

Everyone here leaves with me

For our chance to be free

 

We will fight

and damn it we will win

Stand up with me tonight

and tomorrow will rise again

 

Cause we are soldiers

and we are young

Forever and ever more

Looking forward to a new day in the sun

After we win this war.

 

 

                                                      Jay E. Campbell