[Verse 1] They took him in the rain With school still on his hands Fifteen years of breathing Then a rifle and commands His mother held his jacket Like it could turn him back But the trucks kept rolling Down that dust and gravel track [Pre-Chorus] He learned the weight of fear Before he was a man He wrote it in the dirt Then the smoke came [Chorus] He was a boy, a boy Sent into the fire He bled for a flag And came home to a pyre He was a boy, a boy And the war was lost His country in his hands Gone at the cost [Verse 2] He crossed the broken border With ash inside his coat He saw his country in ruins He fought for their tomorrow Then found no place called home [Pre-Chorus] The guns here so heavy Cold against his skin What they called a victory Was where the grief begins [Chorus] He was a boy, a boy Sent into the fire He bled for a flag And came home to a pyre He was a boy, a boy And the war was lost His country in his hands Gone at the cost [Bridge] Now he sits by the window Counting years like prayer Fifteen never left him It’s still standing there In the face of every old man That the mirrors show There’s a child in a uniform That never got to grow [Chorus] He was a boy, a boy Sent into the fire He bled for a flag And came home to a pyre He was a boy, a boy And the war was lost His country in his hands Gone at the cost
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