A Soldiers Story (Pilgrim's Address)

Mr. President, you don't know my name,

But you could find it if you really cared,

because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,

All I ask for in return is the truth,

Can we just be honest, I've heard that

speech is free

So please believe me that this address

is sincere

I'm no-one special, just a regular guy

But I just can't keep on wondering why

That the shells we fired they now kill

our own

And we waste away like shadows in our

homes.

I fell from blue skies, fought through

desert storms

I froze in firefights and killed someone,

That had a father who loved him just

like mine

Who believed the sacrifice was justified,

In the name of freedom and in the name

of God

While shifting sands hid all our sins and

all the blood

In the wake of glory,

I flew back home

I watch videos at night in

uniform

Of those towns and cities

being torn apart

By those bombs that fool

the people by

being smart

As they flew down chimneys along

corridors

And explode on film and everyone

goes awe!

And you read the stories about how

no-one's killed

And I think about the photo that I kept

To remind me that it was all for real

And the ghost that I've become wil

be released

To the sands still shifting that cover all

the lies

About what really happened and who

really died

Was it really worth it?

Was it worth the cost?

Did we really take the high ground or

have we lost

All the moral battles did we lose the war

Mr. President I need to know for sure

That with all this knowledge all

this control

That we were on the side of right

after all

That we weren't lied to, that we

weren't used

And the country that we fought for still

upholds the truth

Mr. President you don't know my name

but you could find it if you really cared

It's on a black wall on a cross of stone

In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close

to home

On not so foreign islands out on

city streets

Mr. President just tell me why I'm here

This is my question, this is my life this is

my address

Mr. President