Growing up my dad
Wasn’t really there
Still I knew all along
That he really cared
I was just a child
What could I know
About the man who was lost
In a war so long ago
it's too late to bring him home,
He’s in a distant land
Fighting a war
I can’t begin to understand
Thinking about what he’s done
and where he’s been
Living the pain
Over and over again
When I was only ten
My brother went to war
I did not know then
He end up different than before
When he came back
Part of him was lost
But, I was too young to understand the cost
It's too late to bring him home,
He’s in a distant land
Fighting a war
I can’t begin to understand
Thinking about what he’s done
and where he’s been
Living the pain
Over and over again
Now I watch my son
Staring into space
Knowing that his mind
Is in a foreign place
I can’t give him back
all the years that he’s lost
But, now I understand what war can cost
And what war’s done
To these young men
Who live the pain of war
Over and over again
Over and over again
Over and over again