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⏱️ 3:45 duration
🆔 ID: 442634
📜 Lyrics
16 years old when I went to the war
To fight for a land fit for heroes
God on my side, and a gun in my hand
Chasing my days down to zero
And I marched and I fought and I bled
And I died and I never did get any older
But I knew at the time that a year in the line
Was a long enough life for a soldier
We all volunteered
And we wrote down our names
And we added two years to our ages
Eager for life and ahead of the game
Ready for history's pages
And we brawled and we fought
And we whored 'til we stood
10,000 shoulder to shoulder
A thirst for the Hun
We were food for the gun
And that's what you are when you're soldiers
I heard my friend cry
And he sank to his knees, coughing blood
As he screamed for his mother
And I fell by his side
And that's how we died
Clinging like kids to each other
And I lay in the mud
And the guts and the blood
And I wept as his body grew colder
And I called for my mother
And she never came
Though it wasn't my fault
And I wasn't to blame
The day not half over
And 10,000 slain, and now
There's nobody remembers our names
And that's how it is for a soldier
To fight for a land fit for heroes
God on my side, and a gun in my hand
Chasing my days down to zero
And I marched and I fought and I bled
And I died and I never did get any older
But I knew at the time that a year in the line
Was a long enough life for a soldier
We all volunteered
And we wrote down our names
And we added two years to our ages
Eager for life and ahead of the game
Ready for history's pages
And we brawled and we fought
And we whored 'til we stood
10,000 shoulder to shoulder
A thirst for the Hun
We were food for the gun
And that's what you are when you're soldiers
I heard my friend cry
And he sank to his knees, coughing blood
As he screamed for his mother
And I fell by his side
And that's how we died
Clinging like kids to each other
And I lay in the mud
And the guts and the blood
And I wept as his body grew colder
And I called for my mother
And she never came
Though it wasn't my fault
And I wasn't to blame
The day not half over
And 10,000 slain, and now
There's nobody remembers our names
And that's how it is for a soldier
⏱️ Synced Lyrics
[00:11.38] 16 years old when I went to the war
[00:17.25] To fight for a land fit for heroes
[00:23.38] God on my side, and a gun in my hand
[00:29.02] Chasing my days down to zero
[00:34.55] And I marched and I fought and I bled
[00:38.36] And I died and I never did get any older
[00:46.11] But I knew at the time that a year in the line
[00:52.35] Was a long enough life for a soldier
[00:57.33]
[01:07.05] We all volunteered
[01:09.63] And we wrote down our names
[01:12.68] And we added two years to our ages
[01:18.94] Eager for life and ahead of the game
[01:24.79] Ready for history's pages
[01:30.22] And we brawled and we fought
[01:33.04] And we whored 'til we stood
[01:36.28] 10,000 shoulder to shoulder
[01:42.05] A thirst for the Hun
[01:44.93] We were food for the gun
[01:48.13] And that's what you are when you're soldiers
[01:52.77]
[02:28.99] I heard my friend cry
[02:31.45] And he sank to his knees, coughing blood
[02:35.85] As he screamed for his mother
[02:40.27] And I fell by his side
[02:43.33] And that's how we died
[02:46.51] Clinging like kids to each other
[02:52.01] And I lay in the mud
[02:54.94] And the guts and the blood
[02:58.06] And I wept as his body grew colder
[03:03.72] And I called for my mother
[03:06.92] And she never came
[03:09.43] Though it wasn't my fault
[03:12.31] And I wasn't to blame
[03:15.67] The day not half over
[03:18.52] And 10,000 slain, and now
[03:22.23] There's nobody remembers our names
[03:27.83] And that's how it is for a soldier
[03:37.79]
[00:17.25] To fight for a land fit for heroes
[00:23.38] God on my side, and a gun in my hand
[00:29.02] Chasing my days down to zero
[00:34.55] And I marched and I fought and I bled
[00:38.36] And I died and I never did get any older
[00:46.11] But I knew at the time that a year in the line
[00:52.35] Was a long enough life for a soldier
[00:57.33]
[01:07.05] We all volunteered
[01:09.63] And we wrote down our names
[01:12.68] And we added two years to our ages
[01:18.94] Eager for life and ahead of the game
[01:24.79] Ready for history's pages
[01:30.22] And we brawled and we fought
[01:33.04] And we whored 'til we stood
[01:36.28] 10,000 shoulder to shoulder
[01:42.05] A thirst for the Hun
[01:44.93] We were food for the gun
[01:48.13] And that's what you are when you're soldiers
[01:52.77]
[02:28.99] I heard my friend cry
[02:31.45] And he sank to his knees, coughing blood
[02:35.85] As he screamed for his mother
[02:40.27] And I fell by his side
[02:43.33] And that's how we died
[02:46.51] Clinging like kids to each other
[02:52.01] And I lay in the mud
[02:54.94] And the guts and the blood
[02:58.06] And I wept as his body grew colder
[03:03.72] And I called for my mother
[03:06.92] And she never came
[03:09.43] Though it wasn't my fault
[03:12.31] And I wasn't to blame
[03:15.67] The day not half over
[03:18.52] And 10,000 slain, and now
[03:22.23] There's nobody remembers our names
[03:27.83] And that's how it is for a soldier
[03:37.79]