| He woke up in the middle of the night
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| He could hear the echoes of the fight
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| He would always check his scope
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| Before he’d load his magazine
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| He tried to fight the fire in his head
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| And fought to keep the focus sharp instead
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| He never knew he’d ever be
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| A hero at nineteen
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| It’s time to go (inside he knows)
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| He’s on his own (so all alone)
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| No compromise (none in his eyes)
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| No questions why, never say die
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| On the field of shattered dreams
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| They rise to pull themselves together
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| In this land of liberty
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| They wear their Purple Hearts forever
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| He wet his face to wash the fear away
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| He said a prayer behind the barricade
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| He looked out on the desert
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| As they rolled on down the road
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| There wasn’t any warning or retreat
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| When twenty-seven vanished in the heat
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| They never knew that they were going down
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| Not going home
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| No compromise (none in his eyes)
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| No questions why, never say die
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| On the field of shattered dreams
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| They rise to pull themselves together
|
| In this land of liberty
|
| They wear their Purple Hearts forever
|
| No compromise (none in his eyes)
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| No questions why, never say die
|
| On the field of shattered dreams
|
| They rise to pull themselves together
|
| In this land of liberty
|
| They wear their Purple Hearts forever
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| On the field of shattered dreams
|
| They rise to pull themselves together
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| In this land of liberty
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| They wear their Purple Hearts forever |