My father was a captain, and my brother was the same
But I dont think I'm capable of living up to the family name
I dont want to kill no-one, I dont want blood on my hands
‘But this is a war and I must serve’, said the military man, oh man.

Well I am just a soldier in a war that cant be won
Trying to keep myself alive, hiding behind my gun
There's a man just over there who wants to see me dead
I dont even know his name but that man has got me scared,
I'm scared.

Now I am just a soldier who is slowly going insane
BANG BANG! all day and night, firing through my brain
I've seen my people dieing and I've seen them disappear
Big bombs bright lights, in the middle of the night
They fill me full of fear, so full of fear.

Now I am just a soldier, who wants to get back home
I've a wife and child, it seems so long since I've been gone
I just want to see their faces, hold them close to me
But I'm so scared I'll be shot dead and never get the chance to see
My baby...My baby.

Help me, get me out of here, Oh I dont wanna die
Days and nights are full of fear I'm breaking up inside,
I dont wana die
No, no, I dont wanna die
Out here in a field
I dont wanna die


© Anthony Morley (AKA - Mr Clean), 2006 (all rights reserved)
    myspace/mrclean

"A brief background; I've always loved history (as I've said previously) and this song is one I wrote when I was first learning to play piano. Recently I've been looking at some of my old songs and re-learning them. This was one I've always remembered but never paid much attention to. So I re-wrote it slightly and recorded it for my MySpace.   I tried to capture the thoughts and feelings of someone in a war.  Some of the things my grandfather had spoken to me about when I was a child and young man, have stayed with me, and some of his words are reflected in the song.  'I'm so scared I'll be shot dead and never get the chance to see my baby', for example, is a re-working of something he said to me once about my father. So it's a personal piece as well as a piece of poetry/song ."  Mr Clean