[ti:Friends In The Armed Forces] [ar:Thursday] [al:Common Existence] [00:02.00]Thursday - Friends In The Armed Forces [00:10.00]LRC by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang [00:26.00] [00:27.54]There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight [00:32.63]It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar [00:38.24]And if you try to speak your mind [00:41.87]They tell you keep it to yourself [00:44.50]You got friends in the armed forces [00:48.93]They wanna know which side you're on [00:52.79]Doesn't matter cause we'll all be off [00:54.55] [00:55.55]To train, to fight [00:57.87]Disregard our human rights [01:00.52]To play the part [01:02.81]The consciense of the damned [01:05.18]You say you're defending me [01:09.54]I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons [01:12.57]Praying not to see [01:14.15] [01:15.05]Another folded flag to a mourning lover [01:19.60]He was an army of one but they'll find another [01:25.14]And in the fold of the body bag [01:28.44]Somebody check for a heart [01:30.63]You got friends in the armed forces [01:36.55]Now we know what a soldier costs [01:39.45]It's the cost of the rest of us [01:41.48] [01:42.15]To take a life [01:44.46]We all have our price [01:47.31]The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds [01:51.57]You say you're defending me [01:55.60]I'm untying yellow ribbons [01:59.27]On every single tree I see [02:03.90] [02:04.95]They'll float like butterflies back home [02:12.56]And I can feel the desert's heat [02:15.93]When you're standing next to me [02:18.59]Friendship offers no relief [02:22.75]Stay with me now, just hear me out [02:26.25]Don't want to lose you to that great black cloud [02:30.09]Coming down [02:31.57] [02:33.11]You see in the path a bullet makes [02:37.13]When it calls you by your name [02:39.24]And the medic can't play the rythym of your heart [02:46.57]So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march [02:51.66]The parade passes by our fingertips [02:56.79]As lives once were right [03:02.68] [03:03.79]To change our minds [03:06.17]Everything that's wrong looks right [03:08.62]The lives we lead [03:11.01]Are somewhere in between [03:15.14] [03:34.85]You say you're defending me [03:40.57]I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons [03:43.35]Praying not to see [03:46.05]We're not going to hell [03:50.86]To run rings around a wishing well [03:57.34]