Like Soldiers Do Lyrics

The song Like Soldiers Do is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Back to Basics in the year 1990 .



Blue eyes fighting the gray eyes
Fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of words
Reachin' all the years

I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down
With the sun behind its back

Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do

Nothing is clear in this tactical
Unclear war
I can't be bothered to find out
What we are fighting for

No one can win this war of the senses
I see no reason to drop my defenses
So stand fast my emotions
Rally 'round my shaking heart

Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do

Blue eyes fighting the gray eyes
Fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of words
Reachin' all the years

I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down
With the sun behind its back

I knew once again I was under attack
So stand fast my emotions
Rally 'round my shaking heart

Our fathers were all soldiers
Shall we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers do



Billy Bragg - Back to Basics

Oct 1990

  1. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
  2. To Have And To Have Not
  3. Richard
  4. Lovers Town Revisited
  5. A New England
  6. The Man In The Iron Mask
  7. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  8. It Says Here
  9. Love Gets Dangerous
  10. From A Vauxhall Velox
  11. The Myth Of Trust
  12. The Saturday Boy
  13. Island Of No Return
  14. The Guitar Says Sorry
  15. Like Soldiers Do
  16. St. Swithin's Day
  17. Strange Things Happen
  18. A Lover Sings
  19. Between The Wars
  20. The World Turned Upside Down
  21. Which Side Are You On

Like Soldiers Do