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Stevie Wonder - Front Line Lyrics

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  • I am a veteran of the war
  • I up and joined the army back in 1964
  • At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost
  • I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off
  • I recall a quote from a movie that said "who's more a man
  • Than a man with a reason that's worth dyin' for"
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead
  • They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill
  • To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill
  • They put a gun in my hand and said, "shoot until he's dead"
  • But it's hard to kill when 'please your friend' echoes through your head
  • Brought up in church taught no man should take another's life
  • But then put in a jungle where life has no price
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead
  • Back in the world the paper reads today
  • Another war is in the brewing
  • But what about the lives of yesterday
  • And the many happy families that have been ruined
  • My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie too
  • But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do
  • They laugh and say "quit bragging" 'bout the war you should never have been in
  • But my mind is so brain-washed I'd prob'bly go back and do it again
  • I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart
  • With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • They had me standing on the front line
  • But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead
  • [Repeat 2 times...fade out]

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