GRANDADDY

CAME HOME

IN A B-52

IN A PINE BOX

COVERED

IN RED WHITE

AND BLUE

HE WAS ONE OF

THE BRAVE AND

THE PROUD AND

THE FEW

TWENTY-ONE GUNS

HELPED

US SAY GOODBYE

I STOOD THERE

IN SILENCE

TRYIN' HARD

NOT TO CRY

AS THE PREACHER

HE QUOTED

LINES WRITTEN

IN RED

AND THEN HE FOLDED

HIS BIBLE

AND IN A BROKEN

VOICE HE SAID

THERE'S ONLY TWO

PEOPLE WHO'S

EVER DIED FOR ME

LAID DOWN

THEIR LIVES

JUST SO I COULD

BE FREE

THEY BOTH WENT

THROUGH HELL

BARED CROSSES

AND SHELLS

AND BOTH GOT BACK

UP AGAIN AFTER

THEY FELL

THEY NEVER

PICKED A FIGHT

BUT THEY'RE THERE

TO PICK UP

THE PIECES

GOD ONLY KNOWS

WHO WE'D BE

WITHOUT SOLDIERS

AND JESUS

IT SEEMS LIKE THE

NEWS LOVES TO

RUN 'EM BOTH DOWN

BUT WHENEVER WE

NEED 'EM

THEY'RE ALWAYS

AROUND

SO DON'T HAND

ME A PARTY'S

POLITICAL VIEWS

'CAUSE THERE'S A

LEFT SIDE

A RIGHT SIDE

AND THEN THERE'S

THE TRUTH

THERE'S ONLY TWO

PEOPLE WHO'S

EVER DIED FOR ME

LAID DOWN

THEIR LIVES

JUST SO I COULD

BE FREE

THEY BOTH WENT

THROUGH HELL

BARED CROSSES

AND SHELLS

AND BOTH

GOT BACK

UP AGAIN AFTER

THEY FELL

THEY NEVER PICKED

A FIGHT BUT

THEY'RE THERE

TO PICK UP

THE PIECES

GOD ONLY KNOWS

WHO WE'D BE

WITHOUT SOLDIERS

AND JESUS

TO ME THEY'RE

BOTH HEROES

FOR THE PATH THAT

THEY CHOSE

'CAUSE ONE FIGHTS

FOR MY LIFE

ONE FIGHTS

FOR MY SOUL

THERE'S ONLY TWO

PEOPLE WHO'S

EVER DIED FOR ME

LAID DOWN

THEIR LIVES

JUST SO I COULD

BE FREE

THEY BOTH WENT

THROUGH HELL

BARED CROSSES

AND SHELLS

AND BOTH

GOT BACK

UP AGAIN AFTER

THEY FELL

THEY NEVER

PICKED A FIGHT

BUT THEY'RE THERE

TO PICK UP

THE PIECES

GOD ONLY KNOWS

WHERE WE'D BE

WITHOUT SOLDIERS

AND JESUS

SOLDIERS AND JESUS