There´s a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight
It´s pinned to the chest of the latest liar
And if you try to speak your mind
They tell you keep it to yourself
You´ve got friends in the armed forces
They want to know which side you´re on
Doesn´t matter cause we´re all being used

To train, to fight
Disregard all human rights
To play the part
The conscience of the damned
You say you´re defending me
I´m sick of tying yellow ribbons
Praying not to see

Another folded flag to a mourning mother
He was an army of one but they´ll find another
And in the fold of the body bag
She´ll find a check for a hundred grand
She´s got friends in the armed forces
Now we know what a soldier costs
What´s the cost of the rest of us

To take a life
We all have our price
The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds
You say you´re defending me
I´m out tying yellow ribbons
On every single tree

I´ve seen them float like butterflies back home
I can feel the desert´s heat
When you´re standing next to me
Our friendship offers no relief
Stay with me now, just hear me out
Don´t want to lose you to that great black cloud
Coming down
You´ve seen in the path a bullet makes
When it calls you by your name
And the medic can´t play the rhythm of your heart
So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march as the parade passes by.


The ticker-tape will rise like sparks when we´re born
To change our minds
Everything that´s wrong looks right
The lives we lead
Are somewhere in between


March: Left, Right, Left
You say you´re defending me
I´m sick of tying yellow ribbons
Praying not to see
Now sing it
We´re not going to hell
To run rings around a wishing well