Front Line

STEVIE WONDER

I am a veteran of the war


I up and joined the army back an 1964


At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost


I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off


I recall a quote form a movie that said "who's more a man


Than a man with a reason that's worth dyin' for"


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead


They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill


To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thril


They put a gun in my hand and said "shoot until he's dead"


But it's hard to kill when 'please I'm your friend' echoes through your head


Brought up in church taught no man should take another's life


But then put in the jungle where life has no price...no


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead


Back in the world the paper reads today


Another war is in the brewing


But what about the lives of yesterday


And the many happy families that have been ruined


My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie too


But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do


They laugh and say "quit braggin" 'bout the war you should have never been in


But my mind is so brain-washed I'd prob'bly go back and do it again


I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart


With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop...no


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


They had me standing on the front line


But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead


Would you believe I do?


They had me standing on the f

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