Blood Red Shores

Race across the water toward the distant shores

Soldiers filled with honor, we're heading off to war

My hands start shaking as anxiety takes hold

As we near the beaches to conquer our foes

Storm the beach do or die, Semper Fi

My foot hits the sand as all hell breaks loose

Half my men cut down

They had never told us that it would be like this

Bullets flying everywhere while bombs blow men to

bits

Nowhere to take cover from above death rains

See the medics rushing to those who scream in pain

Storm the beach do or die, Semper Fi

The horrors that I see will haunt my very thoughts

For all my days

Blood

I see it everywhere

From the bodies of those who never stood a chance

On

And on we go

I just pray I don't die on these blood red shores of

France

Now many years later I think back to that morn

How my long time friends and I had all gone off to

war

Now we're back together, feel sadness in my bones

Read the words of valor upon our tombstones

Storm the beach do or die, Semper Fi

When I close my eyes the images return

So vividly

Blood

I see it everywhere

From the bodies of those who never stood a chance

On

And on we went

As so many had died on those blood red shores of

France