Friends In The Armed Forces

There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight

It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar

And if you try to speak your mind

They tell you keep it to yourself

You got friends in the armed forces

They wanna know which side you're on

Doesn't matter cause we'll all be off

To train, to fight

Disregard our human rights

To play the part

The conscience of the damned

You say you're defending me

I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons

Praying not to see

Another folded flag to a mourning lover

He was an army of one but they'll find another

And in the fold of the body bag

Somebody check for a heart

You got friends in the armed forces

Now we know what a soldier costs

It's the cost of the rest of us

To take a life

We all have our price

The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds

You say you're defending me

I'm untying yellow ribbons

On every single tree I see

They'll float like butterflies back home

And I can feel the desert's heat

When you're standing next to me

Friendship offers no relief

Stay with me now, just hear me out

Don't want to lose you to that great black cloud

Coming down

You see in the path a bullet makes

When it calls you by your name

And the medic can't play the rhythm of your heart

So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march

The parade passes by our fingertips

As lives once were right

To change our minds

Everything that's wrong looks right

The lives we lead

Are somewhere in between

You say you're defending me

I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons

Praying not to see

We're not going to hell

To run rings around a wishing well