19 Alpha Brigade

I was just sixteen when I marched away

Called to serve before my time to play

Two months of training the barracks cold

Ten men to a room young hearts turned old

Every morning, standing tall at six Polished boots, pressed clothes no tricks

One mistake and punishment came

But through the fire I learned my name

From Limburg nights to Lebanon skies

I carried my youth I watched innocence die

Through the pain the fear and the fight I stood

It broke me down but it made me good

And I wonder now, as the years drift on

Should the duty return to make the young ones strong

Marching miles with the weight we bare

Gas in the room couldn’t breathe no more

Support drills they called the test from hell

But we carried each other, and we lived to tell

Tanks in the fields in Germany’s rain

Every scar a story every bruise a name

And though I was barely seventeen

I saw things no child should ever have seen

From Limburg nights to Lebanon skies

I carried my youth I watched innocence die

Through the pain the fear and the fight I stood

It broke me down but it made me good

And I wonder now as the years drift on

Should the duty return to make the young ones strong

A girl at the border gone in the flame

The price of war there’s no one to blame

I came back changed a boy no more

A soldier’s heart on a restless shore

Rowan tigers

Make love not War only love