I've heard the children cry, have you?nI've watched my friends die, have you?nmy country called, threw me in the frayntoday she looks the other waynI know just what to say, do you?nnI was 19 in '68, weren't you?ncame home to live on a Philly steam grate, you too?nhad half a leg and a VA bednthen they said this boy is sick in the headnmy brothers took me in instead, you too?nnI held that little girl's hand, did you?nI told her I understand, do you?nscrapnel had cut her in 2nwhat's a 5 year old supposed to do?nI've seen the face of war, have you?nnNow I've got a girl of my own, don't you?nwould love to see her fully grown, you too?nnow you leave them in Iraq and Afghanistannlike you left me in Viet NamnI faced up, I never ran, did you?nnI've heard the children cry, have you?nI've watched my friends die, have you?nmy country called, threw me in the frayntoday she looks the other waynI know just what to say, do you?