Goodnight Saigon Lyrics - The Complete Hits Collection 1973-1997 - Billy Joel

We met as soul mates 

On parris island 

We left as inmates 

From an asylum 

And we were sharp 

As sharp as knives 

And we were so gung ho 

To lay down our lives 

We came in spastic 

Like tameless horses 

We left in plastic 

As numbered corpses 

And we learned fast 

To travel light 

Our arms were heavy 

But our bellies were tight 

We had no home front 

We had no soft soap 

They sent us playboy 

They gave us bob hope 

We dug in deep 

And shot on sight 

And prayed to jesus christ 

With all our might 

We had no cameras 

To shoot the landscape 

We passed the hash pipe 

And played our doors tapes 

And it was dark 

So dark at night 

And we held on to each other 

Like brother to brother 

We promised our mothers we'd write 

And we would all go down together 

We said we'd all go down together 

Yes we would all go down together 

Remember charlie 

Remember baker 

They left their childhood 

On every acre 

And who was wrong? 

And who was right? 

It didn't matter in the thick of the fight 

We held the day 

In the palm 

Of our hand 

They ruled the night 

And the night 

Seemed to last as long as six weeks 

On parris island 

We held the coastline 

They held the highlands 

And they were sharp 

As sharp as knives 

They heard the hum of our motors 

They counted the rotors 

And waited for us to arrive 

And we would all go down together 

We said we'd all go down together 

Yes we would all go down together 

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