Caged into the chopper
Crossing the green
Camouflage confusing his eyes

His company down under
Shots from nowhere
Loyalty'll be denied in time


Followed the call of pride
Patriotic to fight for stars and stripes

Heroic left his home
To invade a land
Where he doesn't belong


Agent orange cleared his sight now
A different face stared at him somehow

Gas changed the conflict
Sort of deranged
Hope and honour

Have fallen with the green

Deprived of the green filter

No more cruelties censored
War can't be ignored any longer
Wishes he was out of sight again


The green is gone
Shelter's slain

The hidden heroes
Delivered to the pain
It's in his face

Where they run, where they fall
It's in his mind
Unable to close the scar

Heroic image uncovered
Escaping from it's challenging disguise


Into the green
Into the green
Where mortality's unseen

Into the green
Where war games are so easy to play


Soon it was done
The hell of Vietnam
Unveiled it's violated grace

His company down under
Strategic demands
Raged like a tropic disease


It's been hard to watch 'em die
Trying to forget Operation My Lai

Though he didn't really mind
To hear some Viet Cong's women cry


Agent orange cleared his sight now
Loyalty was kicked away somehow
Turned the chopper

Left the violence
Into the green
Where war is as once


Deprived of the green filter
No more cruelties censored

War can't be ignored any longer
Wishes he was out of sight again


Into the green
Into the green
Where mortality's unseen

Into the green
Where bravery's what it means


Invisible, in the green