Lyrics

Not My War
©2011Pat Humphries/Emma’s Revolution
Moving Forward Music
www.emmasrevolution.com

Chorus: I will not fight
I will not take orders
My life is short and getting shorter
This is not my land
I don’t belong here
This is not my war

When I was young I would play the hero
My chance for real, next to zero
I grew up poor and I grew up empty
Recruiters came and tried to tempt me

They promised cars and they promised money
They showed my future bright and sunny
Though it sounded good, I did not believe them
I had a friend and they deceived him.

My buddy, Juan, joined the army
He was convinced he would help his family
He tried his best to buy the story
But bloody lies betrayed the glory

Juan wrote to me from a bar in Baghdad
He helped me see the power that I had
There is no war without the warrior
Just silent tanks, guns and mortar

Juan came home to the dock at Dover
We laid him down in Kentucky clover
With his son and his wife beside me
I read his words. May they always guide me.