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BOYS OF VIETNAM
We were nothing more than teenage boys
When we parked our cars, our pride and joys
And we kissed our girls and we kissed our
moms
Then they sent us off to Vietnam
Oh, what a wicked web we weave
When once we practice to deceive
Red and yellow, Black or white
We didn't know why we'd came to fight
Just days ago, we were safe and sound
Today, we burned a village down
It's hard to stop it, and once it starts
It tears a young boy all apart
Oh,what I've seen through these tear filled
eyes
Is hard to believe and so I'll tell you lies
You never really wanted to hear
What happened to us, Over there
I found a finger with a class ring on
it
Nothing else and I gazed upon it
This one belonged to a dear sweet
friend
A boy who'll never be a man
Some came back crippled, some came back
blind
Some never left, some stayed behind
Some seem alright, but when you catch
their gaze
You'll see sadness, they can't erase
It's over now, but not the stories
Of boys, now men, long past their glory
Some drunks, some junkies if you're keeping
score
They lost themselves and they lost the war
They're prisoners now of a time gone by
Escape, perhaps, the day they die
Some wish their names were written on that
wall
So they could just, forget it all
So walk on by and shake your head
At what seems to be our living dead
There seems no way to right the wrong
So God Bless the BOYS OF VIETNAM
2006 William
C. Stephens
(All rights reserved)
