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He is small in stature and he is tall and sturdy
His weapons are of steel and stone and wood
He is thirty years old or more and he is only seventeen
As a soldier he has been around for centuries old
He is a Muslim, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jew
Catholic and Mennonite, Reformed
And for a thousand years he has been killing me for you and you for me
And yet he knows very well: killing is wrong
He fights for Great Britain and for America
He fights for Portugal and Pakistan
And he also fights for the Russians, and he thinks while he fights
br/>That he can thus put an end to war
And he fights for communism and for the monarchy
He says: it is for the peace of every country
He who comes out has to do with who dies and lives on
And yet he never sees the writing on the wall
But if he hadn't been there, Hitler would never have had a chance
Without him Caesar would only have stood alone
He makes himself a weapon to be used in battle
And through him all the killing will continue
He is the eternal soldier and he is truly to blame
His orders certainly don't come from that far away
He gets them from here, from you and me
His leaders are us
This will not put an end to the suffering of war