We were the children of `45. Loaded like pistols and taught how to die. We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrender). Through trenches dug in the back of my mind. I go over the top time after time. Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember). Now there's no fight left within me but the writing of this wrong. As nations we're divided but as people we are one. Like brothers in blood it seems that we've been -Too Long A Soldier. In the city of monuments among the flags of all governments. The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line. Where people cry for a nations scars. And heros sleep beneath a blanket of stars. Too young to die but never too old to play the general's game. Now there's no life left within them but the memory lingers on. As nations we're divided but as people we are one. For brothers in blood we sing that we've been -Too Long A Soldier. Eternal flames blow in the wind I've been Too Long A Soldier. Captain of the guard I'm coming in Too Long Too Long A Soldier. I've seen so much worth dying for so little worth killing over. Hey Hey. Eternal flames blow in the wind I've been Too Long A Soldier. Captain of the guard I'm coming in Too Long Too Long A Soldier. I've seen so much worth dying for so little worth killing over. Soldiers gone before me I will surely fade away. My eyes have seen the glory and the suffering and the pain. I've been Too Long A Soldier Too Long Too Long A Soldier. I've been Too Long A Soldier. Too Long A Soldier). Eternal flames blow in the wind. Too Long A Soldier). My eyes have seen the glory of. Too Long A Soldier). Oh say can you see by the dawns early light. Oooh Ooh Ooh. Oooh Ooh Ooh. From the album "Wide Awake In Dreamland".