Dust Of The Border

[Intro] Boots in the dust… Engines in the dark… [Verse 1] We were boys inside those Casspirs Laughing like we’d never die Brown uniforms and cigarettes Under that burning African sky The radio played softly While the border called our names And somewhere in the distance You could already smell the rain [Pre-Chorus] And nobody warned us Some wars never end [Chorus] Cause the dust of the border Still lives inside our lungs And the ghosts of the old days Still march beside us when we run We were too young to understand What war would leave behind Yeah we came home older But part of us stayed behind In the dust of the border [Verse 2] Some men still wake screaming Some just drink and stare Some buried all the memories Like they never happened there But every old soldier knows When the night gets still enough You hear the engines coming back Through the silence and the dust [Bridge] For the brothers we buried For the boys who never came home For the men still fighting battles Nobody else can see [Final Chorus] Cause the dust of the border Never really fades away It lives in old photographs And the things we never say And every sunset over Africa Still takes us back in time Yeah we came home breathing But left pieces of our minds In the dust… Of the border…