Baptised By Fire

Father can you help me now

I've fallen weak again

Father can you hear me now

I can't go on

[A-CHORUS:]

Pushed to far

Meet my standards

Make them proud

Kill because I tell you to

Firstborn son

Don't want to see no tears

[B-CHORUS:]

The dream appears

When I close my eyes

Someday that bastard dies

Son he says

You'll be sent away

To make me proud

And to make them pay

Baptised by fire

Baptised by fire

Seems like only yesterday

I was a boy without a care

Now I got to make them pay

Or be sent home in a bag

[A+B CHORUSES]

Father tells me not to cry

You're a man and not a boy

He tells me hold my head up high

Even when I've got nothing to pride

Listen to mamma boy and you'll be weak

Do as I say and not as I do

He says it's nothing when he needs a drink

Boy I'm a man and I made you

[A+B CHORUSES]

You've got no right

To send off to war

Kill or be killed

Are you proud while I'm being scarred?

They say that I'm a soldier now

Time to show your might

Feels like spending time in hell

And my mind isn't right

Ten years later tell them I am a man

But I'm still locked away

Father says didn't go as planned

Ashamed of me so it's best I stay

[A+B CHORUSES]