From the time I was born to the time they came home
Answered the call to their duties were sworn
They gave up there youth in search of the truth
You can see in their eyes the lives left behind
Sleep overtakes me again
The nightmare returns, it will not end
Relive the scene every night
Friends that call just out of sight
Eternal flame now guides their way
An unknown man, an unknown grave
Pa**age of time k**s the pain
A single white cross, a solitary name
Some were left there on the field
Some came home, but were never there
Wandering some foreign land
A lonely imprint on a mountain of sand
Is this what's meant to be
A thousand souls haunt my memories
A silent prayer whispered in haste
And the faces like light begin to fade
From the barbed wire belly crawl, horrors of Buchenwald, nightmares I've seen them all
Fall of Saigon, rage of Pusan, memories of Mylai and Vietcong - Honor the fallen at Midway, battle the Bulge in Ardennes -
Trailing the tears to heaven's gate
The pain of those will never end
From out fathers in the west, sons in the east
Bare the burden of the free
Our mothers and wives, gripping the lives
Of husbands, sons, framed in memories
Blood on the shores of liberty, riding the surge of sand dogs
Into the teeth of the devil's jaw, is this a means to the end
With our fathers we won't stand alone like brothers in arms
We face the unknown