There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight
It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar
And if you try to speak your mind

They tell you keep it to yourself
You got friends in the armed forces
They wanna know which side you're on

Doesn't matter cause we'll all be off

To train to fight

Disregard our human rights
To play the part
The consciense of the damned

You say you're defending me
I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons
Praying not to see


Another folded flag to a mourning lover
He was an army of one but they'll find another

And in the fold of the body bag
Somebody check for a heart
You got friends in the armed forces

Now we know what a soldier costs
It's the cost of the rest of us


To take a life
We all have our price
The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds

You say you're defending me
I'm untying yellow ribbons
On every single tree i see


They'll float like butterflies back home
And i can feel the desert's heat

When you're standing next to me
Friendship offers no relief
Stay with me now just hear me out

Don't want to lose you to that great black cloud
Coming down
You see in the path a bullet makes

When it calls you by your name
And the medic can't play the rythym of your heart
So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march

The parade passes by our fingertips
As lives once were right


To change our minds
Everything that's wrong looks right
The lives we lead

Are somewhere in between

You say you're defending me

I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons
Praying not to see
We're not going to hell

To run rings around a wishing well