Everyone Is Accountable For Their Own Actions, Now Get Back Safe

Here's a song I wrote for my band, The Hypertonics:

*A Letter To The Troops* (Lord)

You volunteered your life and now you've got no choice
You're doing what you're told, you've got a year out with the boys
Your wife is all alone and she's suffering for you
You took your time away and now it's bad enough for two
So with two people hurting and it's still nobody's gain
She needs a volunteer to come and take away her pain
So I'm a-doin' my part while you're risking your life
You're in Iraq and I'm in your wife.

You and me have lots in common and there's a lot to list
While you are there to serve our country, I'm a-serving her breakfast
A moral hex has been left bared in all the things you do
The oral sex that she has shared is wrong, but so are you
Sometimes when we're alone, sometimes she cries your name
But then we hold each other and I love her just the same
So I am just like you while you're risking your life
You're in Iraq and I'm in your wife.

Everyone says they're the victim
Everyone does what they're told
Your leaders say to do some killing
But your God has told you "No".
Everyone just follows orders
All excuses we have heard
But do they teach you in the army
about the place called Nuremberg?

Maybe this is wrong and maybe it's unfair
But she's been feeling better since the time you aren't there
Maybe it's all wrong and maybe we're all sinning
But that's okay because you say that all of us are winning
Now I want peace, and you'd want peace, your wife wants her piece too.
A piece of me is what she wants since she's not having you.
And so you're taking orders when you are taking life
You're in Iraq and I'm in your wife.