Universal Soldier

[Verse 1]

He's five feet two and he's six feet four

He fights with missiles and with spears

He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen

Been a soldier for a thousand years

[Verse 2]

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain

A Buddhist and a Baptist 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

[Verse 3]

And he's killing for Canada, he's killing for France

He's killing for the USA

And he's killing for the Russians, and he's killing for Japan

And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

[Verse 4]

And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds

He says it's for the peacе of us all

He's the one who must dеcide who's to live and who's to die

And he never sees the writing on the wall

[Verse 5]

But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Libau?

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

[Verse 6]

He's the universal soldier and he rarely is to blame

His orders come from far away, no more

They come from here and there and you and me

And brothers, can't you see?

This is not the way we put the end to war