Soldier's Lullaby Lyrics

My name is Raymond but I go by Russ

Truth is, I don't remember too much

Did a six month stint in Kandahar

'Til a bullet shattered my left arm

And they packed me up and shipped me home

My high school sweetheart spent a year by my side

Just waiting patient for the bones to heal up right

But the wires crossed inside my head

Were a circuit that she couldn't mend

So she packed up and headed home

It's ringing in my ears as her words hang in space

You're still alive by God's good grace

But I'm back bleeding in the sand

Every time I close my eyes

Living in this soldier's lullaby

The VA doctor said I'm fixed good as new

Looking at an x-ray, just his version of the truth

But the Percocet he gave away

Sweet capsules made of pure escape

They wrap me up, bring me home

It's ringing in my ears as his words hang in space

You're still alive by God's good grace

But I'm back bleeding in the sand

Every time I close my eyes

Living in this soldier's lullaby

The pharmacy cut me off as winter turned spring

I found a friend who said that he could keep the angels singing

A simple prick and I could fly

Beyond these fractures in my mind

Lift me up, send me home

It's ringing in my ears as I'm floating in space

You're still alive by God's good grace

But I'm back bleeding in the sand

Every time I close my eyes

Living in this soldier's lullaby

Sometimes I wonder if you'd love me better dead

Fallen in a combat zone, 'stead of left out here to beg

I'd be draped beneath your sacred flag

Not frozen in my sleeping bag

Wrap me up, send me home