Universal Soldier

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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He's five foot two,
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   and he's six feet four
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He fights with missiles  and with spears
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He's all of thirty   one,
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   and he's only seventeen
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 He's been a soldier for a thousand years

[Verse 2]
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He's a Catholic, a  Hindu,   an  atheist,
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a   Jain
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A Buddhist and a  Baptist and a   Jew
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And he knows he shouldn't   kill   And he knows he
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always    will  Kill you for me my friend,
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and me for you

[Verse 3]
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And he's fighting for   Canada
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He's fighting for France
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He's fighting for the U__S_A   
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And he's fighting for the Russians
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And he's fighting for Japan
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And he thinks we'll put an end to war   this way

[Verse 4]
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And he's fighting for Democracy   He's fighting for
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the Reds
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He says it's for the peace   of all 
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He's the one who must decide
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Who's to live and who's to  die
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And he never sees the writing on the wall

[Verse 5]
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But without him How would Hit
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ler have condemned him at Libau?
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Without him Caesar    would have stood alone
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He's the one who gives his body
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As  a weapon of the war
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And without him all this killing can't go on

[Verse 6]
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He's the Universal   Soldier and he   really is to  blame
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His orders come from    far away   no  more
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They come from here and there and you and me
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And brothers can't you see
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This is not the way we put the end to war