Three Corners on the Shelf Lyrics

You said your job is freedom and liberty

On that September day the towers fell

Made your decision to defend them

So we held you close and wished you well

We held you close and then we wished you well

Signed up to be all that you could be

To risk it all and do what you believe

To be strong enough

To be good enough

To care enough to leave your home

Put us before yourself

Three corners on the shelf

We woke up safe and warm and poured the coffee

The news feed said it's all worth fighting for

Bullets ringing out against your Humvee

You grabbed your gun and stood to fight the war

You grabbed your gun and stood to fight the war

To show them everything you trained to be

To do it right take out the enemy

To be strong enough

To be good enough

To care enough to leave your home

Put us before yourself

Three corners on the shelf

But no one ever told you it would hurt

No one ever said that pride and pain would both be yours

No one ever said you can't forget

That every day would feel like forever

Forever war

You made it home just like you promised to

And I wish I'd seen your pain before it got to you

White gloves of a color guard wrap your memory

Three cornered folds of red, white and blue

Three cornered folds of red, white and blue

Just know that you were everything to me

Just know

You were strong enough

You were good enough

You cared enough to leave your home

Put us before yourself

Three corners on the shelf