Here's a song you may know, Universal Soldier
here is a clip where the beautiful Buffy St Marie
talk about what inspired her to write the lyrics
and sings the song at the end.
Universal Soldier Lyrics
he's 5'2 and he's 6'4,
he fights with missiles and with spears.
he's all of 31 and he's only 17,
he's been a soldier for a thousand years.
he's a catholic, a hindu, an athiest, a jain,
a buddhist and a baptist and a jew
and he knows he shouldnt kill
and he knows he always will kill
you for me, my friend and me, for you
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.
and he's fighting for democracy
and fighting for the reds,
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 Cesar would have stood alone,
He's the one, who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him always killing cant go on.
he's the universal soldier
and he really is to blame,
his orders come from far away no more.
they come from him
and you and me
and brothers, cant you see?
this is not the way we put an end to war