Joel Billy - Goodnight Saigon lyrics

We met as soul mates<br>On parris island<br>We left as inmates<br>From an asylum<br>And we were sharp<br>As sharp as knives<br>And we were so gung ho<br>To lay down our lives<br>We came in spastic<br>Like tameless horses<br>We left in plastic<br>As numbered corpses<br>And we learned fast<br>To travel light<br>Our arms were heavy<br>But our bellies were tight<br>We had no home front<br>We had no soft soap<br>They sent us playboy<br>They gave us bob hope<br>We dug in deep<br>And shot on sight<br>And prayed to jesus christ<br>With all our might<br>We had no cameras<br>To shoot the landscape<br>We passed the hash pipe<br>And played our doors tapes<br>And it was dark<br>So dark at night<br>And we held on to each other<br>Like brother to brother<br>We promised our mothers we'd write<br>And we would all go down together<br>We said we'd all go down together<br>Yes we would all go down together<br>Remember charlie<br>Remember baker<br>They left their childhood<br>On every acre<br>And who was wrong? <br>And who was right? <br>It didn't matter in the thick of the fight<br>We held the day<br>In the palm<br>Of our hand<br>They ruled the night<br>And the night<br>Seemed to last as long as six weeks<br>On parris island<br>We held the coastline<br>They held the highlands<br>And they were sharp<br>As sharp as knives<br>They heard the hum of our motors<br>They counted the rotors<br>And waited for us to arrive<br>And we would all go down together<br>We said we'd all go down together<br>Yes we would all go down together