You shout from the sidewalk Like you know what happened there Boots stayed wet for seven straight days Mud packed deep in our hair We learned real fast in the jungle You don't leave a man behind You watched my back through the gun smoke I carried yours through the night Back there, we had a code Simple as a loaded gun Out here nobody means it Everybody turns and runs Nothing is over, nothing You don't just shut it off You sent us there with your flags flying high Then act like it was our fault It wasn't my war You asked me I didn't ask you I did what I had to do to survive But somebody never let us win You sit in bars and talk cheap Throwing blame like broken glass Never held your friend together Never zipped up a body bag We came home carrying ghosts Names burned hard in our heads Half the boys still waking up swinging Half the boys already dead Back there, trust meant breathing One mistake and somebody's gone Out here truth gets traded For whatever side you're standing on Nothing is over, nothing You don't just shut it off You sent us there with your cameras rolling Then buried us when it got lost It wasn't my war You asked me I didn't ask you I did what I had to do to survive But somebody never let us win You wanna judge somebody Go carry seventy pounds through the rain Go listen to your best friend scream your name Then come back and tell me whose insane Nothing is over, nothing It follows you home at night You learn to live with the noise in your head You don't learn how to make it quiet It wasn't my war You asked me I didn't ask you I did what I had to do to survive But somebody never let us win Back there we watched each other Back here nobody does
