Nobody Wins A War

America's young men and women

Called to fight a war

Sent to a foreign land

To defeat the enemy

To prevail over young men and women

Who are ready to shed their own blood

On their country’s soil

The strong and young

Against the strong and young

Both sides fighting under their own country's flag

Prepared to die for the same

The government says we won the war

Our citizens are so proud that we won

But I stand here today

As one of the strong and young

As one who wore the uniform

And saw the blood shed

And watched the soil turn red

One who watched my brothers and sisters die

Who heard the cries to God

As I held my friends in my arms

As one who fought to keep the life in them

And lost the fight again and again

I fought proudly under the American flag

And defended my country

I stand here today and tell you

We did not win the war

Nobody won the war

We lost too many young men and women to say we won

Those who made it out alive

Did not make it out unwoonded

We carry the horror of war with us

And see it every time we close our eyes

We hear the cries to God in the silence of the night

Nobody ever really wins a war

The price of freedom is high

And the true cost is known only by those

Who wore the uniform

God bless our veterans