Title: I'm a soldier
Composer: Gary "MoFilker" Hanak
Key: Am

vs1.1:
I'm a soldier -- I do what the leaders say do
I'm a soldier -- doesn't matter if I want to
I'm a soldier -- What we did and how we felt
Were not things on which we dwelt
I'm a soldier -- I was just one of the throng

vs1.2:
Our actions weren't at all confined
To an enemy not well defined
It's done and now the world sits back
To judge our supposed moral lack
We only did our duty
And when we did it wasn't wrong

refrain:
I'm a soldier -- I'm a man of war
But I don't know what I'm fighting for
I left politics to others, now I
have to pay the price
There are memories that haunt my dreams
I wake to the sound of my own screams
And the thought that this is all the coming
years are going to bring
Leaves me feeling cold as glacier ice

bridge1:
We follow still today that ancient Spartan creed
That mothers used when off to war
they sent their own seed
"With your shield or on it, come home no other way"
Though Sparta lived and died, their creed is
still alive today

vs2.1:
I'm a soldier -- always done what I've been ordered
I'm a soldier -- raze a village, guard a border
I'm a soldier -- long as I my orders followed
Consequences I could swallow
I'm a soldier -- just a member of the horde

vs2.2:
But in this war, things aren't too clear
We ain't found no 'WMDs' 'round here
And it's hard to tell the friend from foe
'Specially if your aren't a native Joe
And their feelings for us are
the one thing they have in accord

refrain:
I'm a soldier -- I'm a man of war
But I don't know what I'm fighting for
I left politics to others, now I
have to pay the price
There are memories that haunt my dreams
I wake to the sound of my own screams
And the thought that this is all the coming
years are going to bring
Leaves me feeling cold as glacier ice

bridge2:
It's young men Europe sent out in those great crusades
And even once their children who either
died or were made slaves
Though quite different from the Spartans, it's still
like there was a throne
Soldiers all and dying for a cause that's not their own
...'Cause I'm a soldier...

<instrumental, ending with...>
..I'm a soldier --
..I'm a soldier --
..I'm just a soldier --

vs3.1:
I'm a soldier -- I do what the leaders say do
I'm a soldier -- doesn't matter if I want to
I'm a soldier -- What we did and how we felt
Were not things on which we dwelt
I'm a soldier -- I was just one of the throng

vs3.2:
Our actions weren't at all confined
To an enemy not well defined
It's done and now the world sits back
To judge our supposed moral lack
We only did our duty
And when we did it wasn't wrong

refrain:
'Cause I'm a soldier -- I'm a man of war
But I don't know what I'm fighting for
I left politics to others, now I
have to pay the price
There are memories that haunt my dreams
I wake to the sound of my own screams
And the thought that this is all the coming
years are going to bring

refrain:
Makes me a soldier -- I'm a man of war
But I don't know what I'm fighting for
I left politics to others, now I
have to pay the price
There are memories that haunt my dreams
I wake to the sound of my own screams
And the thought that this is all the coming
years are going to bring
Leaves me feeling cold...
As glacier ice...