Toy Soldiers

Toy Soldiers                               April 30, 2005

The big kids sit their toy soldiers down,

Down in formation style,

And they pretend to engage in war

Without even putting up a fight.

And these kids, well, they're just kids,

But their actions speak ever louder than words.

You see, killing innocent people as justice

Is really simply just a farce.

Tinkered lives ain't like tinker toys.

These soldiers will die heroes' deaths,

To that, there can be no doubt.

They'll have gone through the meat grinder

Suggested in that movie, "Hamburger Hill."

Yet, they are pawns in the hands of kids;

Toy soldiers is what they are.

They will die for their country

Long before their country will die for them.

I raise my glass to those toy soldiers,

Heroes, afore mentioned, they be.

They make my life here possible

And this, the land of the free.

They're just men playing off the big boys' agendas,

Screw the "calmer heads will prevail."

Just men doing the boys' bidding,

Paying forward without receiving back.