Too Long A Soldier Lyrics - Wide Awake In Dreamland - Pat Benatar

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 

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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 

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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" 

Written by: Neil Geraldo & Myron Grombacher