Universal Soldier

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,

He fights with missiles and with spears.

He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen,

Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He's a Christian, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,

A Buddhist, and a Muslim, and a Jew

And he knows he shouldn't kill

And he knows he always will

Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you

And he's fighting for Palestine

He's fighting for Israel

He's fighting for the USA

And he's fighting for the Russians

And he's fighting for Iraq

And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for Democracy

He's fighting for his soil

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 them at Dachau?

Without him Caesar would have stood alone,

He's the one who gives his body

As a weapon of the war,

And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier,he really is to blame,

His orders come from far away no more,

They come from here and there and you and me,

And brothers can't you see,

This is not the way we put the end to war.