Yes they brought me home
Torn in body and mind
Claimed I was a hero
On the day I should have died
They carried me on a stretcher
So they could pin a medal on my chest
But was it really a tribute
To a man now close to death
My body now a shattered wreck
But a mind still so sharp and clear
I can hear their whispers
Resonating in my ears
This was the girl I married
The one who said that she was mine
She's still with me but with another
Living in a world of lies
Why? It wasn't my fault
That the I.E.D went up
And turned my fragile body
Into a mess of ****** pulp
So I can no long perform
Can no longer be a man
But was that a good enough reason
For you to find another man
You think that I don't know the truth
Shed silent tears in the dark of night
I lost my body but not my mind
On the day I should have died
What worth the marriage vows
When things don't go your way
What now the worthless words
She spoke to me that day
I left here as a man
Kissed my wife and said goodbye
Got blown up and shattered on a foreign field
I lived but wish now that I had died
Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 1:53 PM UTC
Yes they brought me home
Torn in body and mind
Claimed I was a hero
On the day I should have died
They carried me on a stretcher
So they could pin a medal on my chest
But was it really a tribute
To a man now close to death
My body now a shattered wreck
But a mind still so sharp and clear
I can hear their whispers
Resonating in my ears
This was the girl I married
The one who said that she was mine
She's still with me but with another
Living in a world of lies
Why? It wasn't my fault
That the I.E.D went up
And turned my fragile body
Into a mess of ****** pulp
So I can no long perform
Can no longer be a man
But was that a good enough reason
For you to find another man
You think that I don't know the truth
Shed silent tears in the dark of night
I lost my body but not my mind
On the day I should have died
What worth the marriage vows
When things don't go your way
What now the worthless words
She spoke to me that day
I left here as a man
Kissed my wife and said goodbye
Got blown up and shattered on a foreign field
I lived but wish now that I had died
This is all to often the bitter truth. I have never been to Afghanistan but in my 24 years of service I saw this so many times
