Jake Bugg - Universal soldier - live from the maze, nottingham/2013 lyrics

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four He fights with missiles and with spears And he's all of thirty-one, but he's only seventeen Been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew And he knows he shouldn't k** But he knows he always will k** you for me, my friend, and me for you And he's fighting for Canada He's fighting for France He's fighting for the USA And he's fighting for the Russians And he's fighting for Japan And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way And he's fighting for Democracy He's fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all He's the one who must decide Who's to live and who's to die But he never sees the writing on the wall But without him How would Hitler have condemned 'em at Dachau? Without him Caesar would've stood alone He's the one who gives his body As a weapon of the war And without him all this k**ing can't go on He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more Come from here and there and you and me And brothers, can't you see? This is not the way we put the end to war