From the recording Back Against the Wall
Lyrics
"Come closer, child, I’ll tell you true,
Some stories live long, though the years are few.
I was an Army Nurse in the Vietnam rain,
Stitchin’ up boys through the fire and the pain.
No medals shined in the mud and smoke,
Just steady hands when the young hearts broke."
We were soldiers too — (echo: soldiers too)
Angels in the fire — (echo: in the fire)
Holding broken bodies — (echo: broken bodies)
Through the barbed-wire choir — (echo: barbed-wire choir)
Kindness was the only — (echo: only thing)
Weapon we ever knew — (echo: ever knew)
We were soldiers too, covered in the blood and the pain —
(All together) It may sound insane… but I’d do it all again.
“I held their hands when the light grew thin,
Whispered words that the wind took in.
I’ve seen young eyes fade far too fast,
Each face I remember, each breath their last.
Scars on my heart that will never fade,
But we carried the fallen, debt never paid.”
We were soldiers too — (echo: soldiers too)
Angels in the fire — (echo: in the fire)
Holding broken bodies — (echo: broken bodies)
Through the barbed-wire choir — (echo: barbed-wire choir)
Kindness was the only — (echo: only thing)
Weapon we ever knew — (echo: ever knew)
We were soldiers too, covered in the blood and the pain —
(All together) It may sound insane… but I’d do it all again.
“Not just nurses, not just hands,
We were warriors in that haunted land.
And though I made it home alive,
Part of me stayed where the wounded cried.”
We were soldiers too — (echo: soldiers too)
Angels in the fire — (echo: in the fire)
Carrying their stories — (echo: their stories)
Higher and higher — (echo: higher, higher)
Kindness was the shield — (echo: the shield we knew)
That we held in the rain — (echo: in the rain, it’s true)
We were soldiers too, covered in the blood and the pain —
(All together) It may sound insane… but I’d do it all again.
“Don’t forget, darling…
We were soldiers too.”