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Mama’s crying in the kitchen
Daddy’s staring at the floor
Little sister in the doorway
Begging me don't go to war
They say son just take that uniform off
don’t fight that fight
But they don’t hear the deadly silence
Every single night

Back home I’m just a shadow
Trying hard to play the part
But out there in the smoke and thunder
Under that black midnight sky
With my brothers and sisters beside me
Covered in dirt and pride
Yeah the world might call it crazy
But it’s the only time I feel right
When the guns light up the dark
That’s when I come alive
when the bullets start to fly
That’s when I feel my pride

Sunday morning church bells ringing
Small town waving yellow ribbons high
Everybody says they’re thankful
That I made it home alive
But I’m pacing in the hallway
Like a caged up hurricane
Cause the quiet back in this hometown
Just echoes in my brain

I try to be the man they knew
But something in me changed
Out there in the smoke and thunder
Under that black midnight sky
With my brothers and sisters beside me
Covered in dirt and pride
the world might call it crazy
But it’s the only time I feel right
When the guns light up the dark
That’s when I come alive
when the bullets start to fly
That’s when I feel my pride

We laugh between the firefights
Under shattered stars above
You learn real fast in a war like that
What loyalty and love is made of
If tomorrow never finds me
I’ll still stand that line with pride

Out there in the smoke and thunder
Under that black midnight sky
With my brothers and sisters beside me
Covered in dirt and pride
The world might call it madness
But it’s the only place that feels like life
When the guns light up the dark
That’s when I come alive
when the bullets start to fly
That’s when I feel my pride

Mama I know you’re praying
All my friends think I'm crazy
Every night I’m overseas
But a soldier like me
Only gonna find his peace
Standing where he was born to be