Of mice and man, and all the way to the bitter end
Will it ever end?
These four wals hold no comfort

No warmth at all, only the cold
I could show you a place that would make you sad
Where man stood proud

But the sights reduce all
And the most frightening thing of all
Is what's held in your hand

I try to forget, but the memory of war
Is stronger now than it was before
And when I fall asleep at night

I wake and reach for my gun
But there's nothing there
And there's noone there

It's just another nightmare
From which I can't run
The sweat runs cold as a bitter chill bites from the night

It's another one of those nights
Sleep doesn't come easy now
And when it does it doesn't last long

And these sleepless nights are all I have to show
No medal is worth its weight in gold
The scars on my flesh are nothing

Compared to the nightmares, so cold
I could almost be there, I could taste the air
Running so real through the killing fields

Machine gunfire, shredded by barbed wire
Then I see my friend and the nightmare ends
But will these nightmares ever end!

Johnny was my only friend
We swore to be there until the end
Side by side for days we fought

And end it all if we were caught
And as I stared into his eyes
Upon his face appeared a smile

The he fell into my arms
And died right there in my arms
His blood dripping from my hands

And what I could not understand
Is why my friend so brave so tall
Should be the one who's made to fall?

I lost the best friend that I had
He died with pride, that's not all he had
His little boy will have to know

Why daddy won't be coming home
almost be there, I could taste the air
Running so real through the killing fields

Machine gunfire, shredded by barbed wire
Then I see my friend and the nightmare ends
But will these nightmares ever end!

I relieve it all every night of my life
No one can help, not even my wife
It all keeps flooding back

The blood and bullet in my friend's back
The screams, the tears, the tormented cries
The pain to show the white of an eye

And to have seen what I had seen
Would make the hardest man cry
I could almost be there, I could taste the air

Running so real through the killing fields
Machine gunfire, shredded by barbed wire
Then I see my friend and the nightmare ends