00:25They told us there was something worth defending
00:28They told us there was something we must save
00:30They drew the lines across the maps
00:33Then sent the young ones on their way
00:36They said the sacrifice would have a meaning
00:39They said that freedom always has a price
00:41But nobody asked the empty chairs
00:44How much a life was really worth that night
00:47And somewhere in the darkness
00:49A mother waits beside the phone
00:52While someone far away from home
00:55Another young man stands alone
00:57What did we win, what did we lose
01:00How many lives before we choose
01:03To put the guns away
01:08How many names must disappear
01:11Before the ones who send them here
01:14Can hear the words we say
01:18What did we win
01:23Tell me what did we win
01:30I hear the helicopters in the distance
01:33Turning night into a wall of sound
01:35I see the fighter jets come screaming
01:38Like thunder tearing through the ground
01:41Millions spent on machines of destruction
01:44Millions more to make another one
01:46While somewhere children go to bed
01:49And wonder why the bombs have come
01:52And flags are flying proudly
01:55While the young are marching on
01:57But when the cheering disappears
02:00Who's counting who is gone
02:03What did we win, what did we lose
02:06How many lives before we choose
02:08How many lives before we choose
02:09To put the guns away
02:13How many names must disappear
02:16Before the ones who send them here
02:19Can hear the words we say
02:23What did we win, what did we win
02:32What did we win
02:53Tell me what did we win
03:17There are photographs beside the candles
03:20There are medals hanging on the wall
03:23There are letters that were never answered
03:25There are names that families still recall
03:28There are children growing up without them
03:31There are fathers who will never know
03:34The person that their child became
03:36Because somebody told them they must go
03:40And somewhere in a quiet town
03:44An empty room still waits
03:46A pair of boots beside the door
03:49A picture in a frame
03:51No victory parade can bring
03:55A single heartbeat back
03:57No shining metal ever will
04:00Erase the names we lack
04:02And all the money in the world
04:07Could never find one yesterday
04:12What did we win, what did we lose
04:15How many times must we refuse
04:18To learn what history knows
04:22How many years, how many years, how many tears, how many generations fears
04:29Before the killing goes
04:34What did we win, what did we win, what did we win
04:41What did we win, what did we win
04:59All that counts
05:01Truth, truth, truth
05:08Truth, truth, truth
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