[Lieutenant]



So you're caught in the night

Of a new firefight

In a jungle that's so hot that it

Steams



An explosion just ahead

Does announce the newly dead

Is it right to call a nightmare a

Dream



And the tracers probe on

'Till a close friend is gone

And you find yourself embracing

Ground



And the foe is as near

As the silence you hear

As he stops to load in another

Round



Battles raging

It's all staging

'Till you realize...

Another way you can die



Still you know they're out there

Feel their eyes, feel their stares

Though there's not a single life

Can see



But you now fire back

For their tracers leave tracks

Pointing out the places where they

Must be



Though a gun is taken out

There's another have no doubt

And so you must continue the game



And you know in this fight

That the value of life

On the other side is not quite the

Same



Battles raging

It's all staging

As your mind denies

Another way you can...



I see a figure in my rifle sight

Who does not know that he's there

And as I hesitate to take his life

The ground explodes



My blood it flows

My heart is racing

Times escaping

As I feel it slowly scraping by