Cross Canadian Ragweed - Long Way Home lyrics

Too scared to go to proud to run Here's your orders boy here's your gun We're sending you off to Vietnam Try to stay cool try to stay calm Never seen nothin' but that Mid-Texas dirt Never been on a flying machine Your job now is to take this gun And k** everything that you see It's a long way home Orange in the air Fire on the ground Them back up boys ain't no where around There's smoke in the sky You're screamin' to the sea Oh God have mercy on me It's a long way home Got that medal on your chest Now you got it made But you're going back to a land of protest And an empty hero's parade Waking up in the dead of night Screaming out your lungs Jungle fires and trip bomb wires And blazin' red turret guns It's a long way home