The universal soldier

The universal soldier


Intro
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He’s five foot two and he’s six feet four, he fights with missiles and with spears
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He’s all of thirtyone and he’s only seventeen, been a soldier for a thousand years

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He’s a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, a Budist and a Babtist and a Jew
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And he knows he shouldn’t kill and he knows he always will, kill you for me my friend and me for you

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And he’s fighting for Canada, he’s fighting for France, he’s fighting for the U - S - A
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And he’s fighting for the Russians and he’s fighting for Japan, and he thinks we’ll put an end to war this way

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And he’s fighting for democracy, he’s fighting for the reds, he says it’s for the peace of all
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He’s the one who must decide who’s to live and who’s to die, and he never sees the writing on the wall

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But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
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Without him Ceasar would have stood alone
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He’s the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war and without him all this killing can’t go on

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He’s the universal soldier and he really is to blame, his orders come from far away no more
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They come from here and there, and you and me, and Brothers can’t you see
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This is not the way we put an end to war