Good Soldier Lyrics - Survival Story - Flobots

Today you don't have to be a soldier 

Don't have to be a soldier, stand down 

It's okay to be as you were 

Be as you were again 

Is it a scheme, is it a vision 

Is it a dream, is it a nightmare 

Or is it a competition and if it is 

What if we don't fight fair? 

What's bald in the morning 

But in the evening has white hairs? 

What's the cause of global warming 

And could it be these things right here? 

I got an idea that might not reach 

Anyone for another light year 

Got a hit-list and a cloud of 

Witnesses which is pricier 

Well, my tears are mightier 

Than my fears so mighty Earth 

Provides me hurt that I keep buried 

Until I convert it to writing 

I was wounded, I was injured 

I was made to move to Denver 

I was taken through a new adventure 

Paint stripped from it's first fixture 

I was placed in another picture 

I was rushed to a new landscape 

And ripped away from family 

Scraped into a politician's mistake 

And what's left of talents in chests beneath oceans 

Welled up behind eyelids has yet to be salvaged 

A world of emotions, a guess that it might be okay 

That it could be all right if expressed 

Today you don't have to be a soldier 

Don't have to be a soldier, stand down 

It's okay to be as you were 

Be as you were again 

Am I a woman raised man-machine 

Damaging everything I touch? 

By not caring enough 

Or too much? 

Am I far flung fantasy 

Setting free enmity? 

And making friends from enemies 

And bridges for the in-betweens 

For the highwayman on the low road 

The tired back with a large load 

The trials spanned till I found hope 

And I found more when I slo-mo'ed 

Enough of the back to face front 

Let those in the pack of the race run 

I'm needing an evener pace one 

Too hasty makes mistakes 

Can you carry a song as strong as your arms 

Can bear that you keep from harm? 

And it will be there when you go wrong 

Make a heart from your bond, your treasure's right here 

And what's left of talents in chests beneath oceans 

Welled up behind eyelids has yet to be salvaged 

A world of emotions, a guess that it might be okay 

That it could be all right if expressed today 

Today you don't have to be a soldier 

Don't have to be a soldier, stand down 

It's okay to be as you were 

Be as you were again 

Today you don't have to be a soldier 

Don't have to be a soldier, stand down 

It's okay to be as you were 

Be as you were again