Silent Tear Ballad

[Guitar solo] I can't believe? Uncle sam drafted me! My momma told me, when she started to cry. "My baby is going to die" Told my mama that this is not good-bye! Through the chopper's roar Ever so high in that napalm sky. Headed to a land so strange and far Trading my guitar for an M16 star Daddy said, 'Be brave, my fighting son' 'Come back when the battle's done' [Pre-Chorus] In the barracks where we lie awake Thinking 'bout the chances that we gotta take [Guitar solo] [ Drum solo] On foreign soil (foreign soil) We stand our ground in unrest With brothers here on the left and right A band of souls in a firefight [Chorus] Fight for freedom, pay the price Steel resolve, personal sacrifice My brothers’ faces, painted with fright Vows echo in the dead of night Together we stand, the platoon unites Playing a melody of survival’s fight [Verse] Letters home filled with ink and fear Sealed with a kiss and a silent tear