Third World Soldier Lyrics

It's time to tell a story that's been hidden all these years

Of children under tombstones and mothers shedding tears

Let's face the facts, we turned our backs

And now we're diggin' graves

But I won't be accessory to makin' people slaves

Take me now, as I am, I won't lie to you again

Take me now, I'm one of them

I'm a Third World Soldier

Shoot me down while you can

You kill the beast you kill the man, ya

Take me now as I am

I'm a Third World Soldier

I've seen the slums in Cairo, the many sick and poor

I've seen the slums in Rio, the wicked ways of war

The guns and bombs, the false alarms

The missiles in the sky

And in the midst of battleships I hear a mother cry

Take me now, as I am, I won't lie to you again

Take me now, I'm one of them

I'm a Third World Soldier

Shoot me down while you can

You kill the beast you kill the man, ya

Take me now as I am

I'm a Third World Soldier

And everywhere I look I see destruction

Bodies all around, children in the ground

And everywhere they're callin' it construction

There's nothin left to eat, the tanks are in the street

Take me now, as I am, I wouldn't die for you again

Take me now, I'm one of them

I'm a Third World Soldier

Shoot me down while you can

You kill the beast you kill the man, ya

Take me now, as I am, I won't lie to you again

Take me now, I'm one of them

I'm a Third World Soldier, take me now

I wouldn't die for you again, ya take me now

I wouldn't die for you again, well take me now

I wouldn't die for you again, ya take me down

I'm a Third World Soldier