Heroes No More Lyrics

It never was written out simply

And no-one ever issued a guarantee

That you could forget this easily

Return to life back home in Utah

Mind would never keep harking back to the war

They trained you up so you hated reds

But ended killing women and children instead

Learned to ignore what your conscience said

And greeted home by wild protesters

But who's to say what's right and what is wrong

And people keep saying go back where you belong

Heroes no more

War is all that you know

You can't live here any more

'Cause you're haunted by the war

They never could know what would happen then

To machines they made which used to be men

Or maybe it's just that way back when

They never expected you to come home

Alive but scarred in such a cruel way

Your mind still tortured even in your dreams today

Alone in the forest and out in the bush

Your sanity snaps with one little push

But ten years on and they say what fuss

Society scorns those anguished soldiers

And tells them that they're lucky to survive

But your mind's still trapped back in 1975

Heroes no more

War is all that you know

You can't live here any more

'Cause you're haunted by the war

Wars are insane, more so those fought in vain

And many are the victims on both sides

And those left behind are still fighting in their minds

Long forgotten victims of your greed and hate and they are

Heroes no more

War is all that you know

You can't live here any more

'Cause you're haunted by the war