Double the Death Toll

He danced into our town like a piper with his song
He had some answers for questions we hadn't heard
He said it'd be easy, a few weekends, and we'd each get our own gun
I felt so grown, I was only 17

Then when the war came, it was different and the weekends turned to months
We had our orders and questions weren't allowed
I stood in the rubble of an old house we'd bombed into the ground
He came walking and fell down at my feet

It felt like forever and a moment when he starred into my eyes
He was covered in blood that wasn't his
He started screaming and shaking, I couldn't understand
And I shot him when he reached toward my gun

Double the death toll and make it ring true
Double the death toll for each soul there's two
Double the death toll cause each one who takes one loses his
Double the death toll and add the walking dead onto the list

Here stands Daniel, a sergeant, he's almost 35
And he's been walking dead for 15 years
He's got three kids now, they don't know em
Cause when they look into his eyes, all they see is their reflection starring back

Double the death toll and make it ring true
Double the death toll for each soul there's two
Double the death toll cause each one who takes one loses his
Double the death toll and add the walking dead onto the list

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• veteran
• war
• state
• government
• david
• kopp

[davebrycekopp]

Me. I wrote it and sang it and played it.

[ToddBoyle]

Good job Dave. Keep singing this!

--Todd

-- washington truth in recruiting (watir org)

[Eirelav111]

Who sings this?