We don’t fight like that

You sat down heavy in that old bar chair

Same look you wore back over there

Eyes like smoke from a battlefield

Carrying ghosts you never healed

You said brother I’m worn down thin

War followed me back home again

Every night it kicks the door

I don’t think I can fight it anymore

Your hands were shaking with that glass of rye

You wouldn’t even look me in the eye

I said that’s not how we fight

We didn’t make it through hell just to lose tonight

We held the line when the sky fell down

When the world was fire all around

Brother you ain’t alone in this war tonight

I’m right here standing in the fight

When the dark comes knocking on your life

That’s not how we fight

You said the silence is the loudest sound

Ever since we made it back to town

No convoy dust no radio calls

Just memories walking through these halls

Said you’re tired of the pain you hide

Tired of burying friends inside

Said maybe peace is a trigger away

Maybe that’s the price some soldiers pay

I grabbed your shoulder before you could fall

Said listen close before you make that call

That’s not how we fight

We didn’t survive those endless nights

Carrying brothers through gunfire rain

Just to surrender to this pain

Brother you ain’t alone in this war tonight

I’m right here standing in the fight

When the dark comes knocking on your life

That’s not how we fight

Remember Ramirez singing off-key loud

Harris laughing just to calm the crowd

Those boys we lost they’d raise some hell

If they knew you were ringing that bell

They didn’t fall so you could go

They’d tell you stand up take it slow

The war may follow but hear me say

You don’t face that fight alone today

That’s not how we fight

We hold the line till morning light

When the weight of the world won’t move an inch

That’s the moment soldiers clinch

Brother you ain’t alone in this war tonight

Your six is covered in this fight

And if you stumble in the night

I’ll carry you till morning light

So put that darkness on the shelf

You carried me I’ll carry you myself

We made a promise back in that life

We don’t quit

We don’t run

And that’s not how we fight.