Universal Soldier

[Verse 1]

He's five foot-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

He's 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 fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France

He's fighting for the USA

And he's fighting for the Russians

And he's fighting 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 peace of us 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

[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 killin' can't go on

[Verse 6]

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 brothers can't you see

This is not the way we put the end to war?