How Can You Sleep?

Oh Mr. President, come walk with me

Hear my voice, in this plea

There’s a sorrow that’s hard to hide

A soldier’s farewell, a mother’s cry

You’re busy in your tower high

While a young man says goodbye

Radiation threats, a deadly game

Did you shield him, or was it the same?

How can you rest, when lives are at stake?

A child’s future, a mother’s heartbreak

Did you hear the whispers, feel the pain?

Or was it all just too hard to explain?

Mr. President, can you sleep at night?

Knowing we sent our boys into the fight

How could you send them to the danger zone?

Leaving loved ones all alone?

Tell me how you justify the call

When it’s our lives that take the fall

Mr. President, can you see what’s true?

The soldier, the parent, the boy in blue

We mourn, we cry, for what we’ve lost

At a price that’s too dear, too high, too cost

A brother gone, a family torn

In a war that left us all forlorn

So hear this song, from hearts that bleed

For every soldier, every freed

We ask for truth, for someone to say

How they got lost along the way

Justice, mercy, where do they lie?

Beneath the weight of a soldier’s cry