Too Long A Soldier-Pat Benatar

[00:28.68]We were the children of '45 [00:33.38]Loaded like pistols and taught how to die [00:37.38]We looked the enemy straight in the eye(And never surrender) [00:45.72]Through trenches dug in the back of my mind [00:49.79]I go over the top time after time [00:54.03]Me and the ones we left behind faces(I'll always remember) [01:01.91]Now there's no fight left within me but the writing of this wrong [01:10.52]As nations we're divided but as people we are one [01:18.42]Like brothers in blood it seems that we've been too long a soldier [01:29.02] [01:34.75]In the city of monuments among the flags of all governments [01:43.39]The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line [01:51.35]Where people cry for a nations scars [01:55.70]And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars [02:00.04]Too young to die but never too old to play the general's game [02:07.89]Now there's no life left within them but the memory lingers on [02:16.29]As nations we're divided but as people we are one [02:24.25]For brothers in blood we sing that we've been too long a soldier [02:35.08]Eternal flames blow in the wind I've been too long a soldier [02:43.39]Captain of the guard I'm coming in too long too long a soldier [02:51.29]I've seen so much worth dying for so little worth killing over hey [03:08.08] [03:33.04]Eternal flames blow in the wind I've been too long a soldier [03:41.22]Captain of the guard I'm coming in too long too long a soldier [03:49.08]I've seen so much worth dying for so little worth killing over [03:57.61]Soldiers gone before me I will surely fade away [04:05.44]My eyes have seen the glory and the suffering and the pain [04:10.07]I've been too long a soldier too long too long a soldier [04:18.31]I've been too long a soldier [04:27.63](Too long a soldier) [04:31.70]Eternal flames blow in the wind [04:35.77](Too long a soldier) [04:38.58]My eyes have seen the glory of [04:44.05](Too long a soldier) [04:46.74]Oh say can you see by the dawns early light ooh ooh [05:12.31]