We signed up, we were both keen, though fully aware of the dangers
We were to be paid handsomely, for acts some would call courageous

We’d fight, we’d fight together
We’d promise to protect and serve
We’d feel extreme pressure
The need to erase our nerves

We yearned for home, counted down the days, though I had noone to go back to
The job seemed easy, until one colleague fell into a haze, left the enemy able to make a breakthrough

We’d fight, we’d fight together
We would try to stem their advance
We’d hold, we’d hold together
We would never yield our stance

I won’t go back, I never will
I won’t go back, I never will

The next trip was to be his last, he was slain right beside me
Thirty years of our shared past, I could feel him dying inside me

I cried, I cried alone
This life is no longer one for me
I’ll die, I’ll die alone
But my revenge shall be my sweet release

But I won’t go back, I never will
He won’t come back, he never will