Universal Soldier

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of 31, and he's only 17 Been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Christian, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain A Buddhist, and a Muslim, and a Jew And he knows he shouldn't kill And he knows he always will Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you And he's fighting for Palestine He's fighting for Israel He's fighting for the U.S.A And he's fighting for the Russians And he's fighting for Iraq And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way And he's fighting for Democracy He's fighting for his soul He says "It's for the peace of all" He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die And he never sees the writing on the wall But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau? Without him Caesar would have stood alone He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war And without him all this killing can't go on, go on He's the universal soldier And he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more They come from here and there, and you and me And brother, can't you see? This is not the way we put the end to war No