Hard times comin home now
Can t get your feet on the ground
Thoughts and issues and no one wants you around
Barely sleepin and you can t get through to the VA on the phone
No one is hiring and no one wants to give you a loan
And everyone else is carryin on just like they ve always done before
You ve been home for a couple a years now buddy but you re still fightin the war
Flashback to Falluja
Lost another best friend
Three tours of duty and you re wondering when it s all gonna end
Bodies broken and bones shattered
Blood and dust in your mouth
Gettin weary but you re runnin with the few and the proud
Sometimes you wonder why you went, You never wondered what you stayed on for
You ve been home for a couple a years now buddy but you re still fightin the war
(Bridge)
Men go off to war for a hundred reasons
But they all come home with the same demons
Some you can keep at bay for awhile, some will pin you to the floor
You ve been home for a couple of years now buddy but you re still fightin the war
The bedspread is frayin
Faded and tearin apart
Two strangers holdin each other in the dark
Tell me, what were you dreamin? How did you think it would end?
How many heroes are scattered out into the wind?
And all the happily ever afters turn to broken dishes and slammin doors
You ve been home for a couple a years now buddy but you re still fightin the war