Soldier

I'm supposed to be a poet/

If you don't know something I'm supposed to know it/

You look to me for guidance/

As if what your looking for/

I can just find it/

But what bothers me more/

It ain't that I can afford to buy a new mic/

It's when you tell me to speak up/

And I just can't think of/

Any more bars to write/

To fill the silence/

Some of you say I belong in an asylum/

Cause you want me to find the balance between peace and war/

And apply it/

And whatever you've done that can justify it/

Maybe that's why I'm so defiant/

Maybe that's why I'm the one who raises my trident/

If I feel pain I just have to hide it/

So deep inside me that even I can't find it



They're spraying these bullets/

I can dodge some/

But some of em hit me like a hole in one/

Try harder man as a rule of thumb/

Maybe next time you can get the job done/

Cause guess what/

I'm still here/

Killed near/

Cause I wouldn't give you the cure/

To your problems/

But it never occurred to you that I don't have it/

You should really go and solve em/

Cause the only one who can is you/

Is there even a decent man in you/

But your on the sideline/

And I'm on the front lines/

As the war wages on I think it's about time/

We worked together/

Its time you realized that I'm not the enemy/

But the people who stand in our way ain't either/

The real enemy for you is you/

Look deep inside/

I know you've tried to hide it/

But maybe now you can fight alongside it/

Because it can't be buried/

I know you already tried it/

I've got a big responsibility/

And I don't even know if I'm doing my job right/

Cause this is much harder than it seems/