Call Me Soldier

August 26, 2009. © Talon Truitt Cherry, All rights reserved

Down time brings no glee
Questioning everything I believed
Slapped in the face by all I confide
Reprimanded by god for my lies

Shipped like a package etched in stone
Many come with me but I’m all alone
Taught to refrain from feeling wrong
Buried in thought for way too long

And they call me soldier
And they call me soldier
And they call me soldier

Landed on shore I hear its call
Breaking my legs but I don’t fall
Captains orders are easy to please
What I'm not told brings me to my knees

Clasped by the ankles for all that I’ve done
Country and brother both watch as I run
Chains of my weakness are carried inside
Burning my soul while they build up my pride

And they call me soldier
And they call me soldier
And they call me soldier

Bodies of bullets flesh and bone
Fourteen feet deep in blood and stone
New friends got restless in the fight
wouldn’t take caution so they lost their lives

Empty as darkness, deaths new host
I don’t make friends now I make ghosts
Holding my breath for what’s inside
Dead as my enemy but I won't die

And they call me soldier
And they call me soldier
And they call me soldier