You'd lay your life down for this country
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Lay it down for fools like me
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I know, I know, I know you would
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You'd make the ultimate sacrifice
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Lose yourself on a throw of the dice
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I know, I know, I know you would
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Cos the line you come from stretches back
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In an unbroken chain other countries lack
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Every single corner of the world
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Has seen our banners being unfurled
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You've won and lost and battled on
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Whether the cause was right or wrong
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God knows what you do to the enemy
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Cos you scare the living hell out of me
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He'd lay his life down for his country
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He'd like to kill fools like me
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I know, I know, I know he would
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He'd make the ultimate sacrifice
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Blow himself to paradise
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I know, I know, I know he would
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And the line he comes from stretches back
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In an unbroken chain other countries lack
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In the farthest corners of the world
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Where he's watched our banners being unfurled
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He's won and lost and battled on
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Whether his cause was right or wrong
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He's this generation's enemy
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And he scares the living hell out of me
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No more war? It's not gonna happen
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Not while there's men
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willing to fight in them
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No more war? It's not gonna happen
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Not while there's patriotism,
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Not while there's patriotism,
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No more war? It's not gonna happen
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Not while there's some saying
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That this is the last one,
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No more war? It's not gonna happen
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Not while religious nuts
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Are willing to spill their guts
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And the line we come from stretches back
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In an unbroken chain no country lacks
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To the darkest corner of a cave
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Where there's a weapon made to stave
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Or gouge or choke or cut and kill
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In a hundred years we'll be fighting still
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I know, I know, I know,
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I know we will.
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I Know
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