Long Way Home Lyrics

Song Text:

Too scared to go to proud to run
Heres your orders boy heres your gun
Were sending you off to Vietnam
Try to stay cool try to stay calm

Never seen nothin but that Mid-Texas dirt
Never been on a flying machine
Your job now is to take this gun
And kill everything that you see

Its a long way home

Orange in the air
Fire on the ground
Them back up boys aint no where around
Theres smoke in the sky
Youre screamin to the sea
Oh God have mercy on me

Its a long way home

Got that medal on your chest
Now you got it made
But youre going back to a land of protest
And an empty heros parade

Waking up in the dead of night
Screaming out your lungs
Jungle fires and trip bomb wires
And blazin red turret guns

Its a long way home