Saigon, it was all gone
The same !@&@e machines
As the streets I grew on

Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge


Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town
Up here there's too much brush and canyon

For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live
Me and the brothers under the bridge


Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light
Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night

We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge


Had enough of town and the street life
Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife
Now I don't want no trouble

And I ain't got none to give
Me and the brothers under the bridge


I come home in '72
You were just a beautiul light
In your mama's dark eyes of blue

I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid
Me and the brothers under the bridge


Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue

One minute you're right there ... and something slips...