Universal Soldier

He’s five foot-two and he’s six feet-four He fights with missiles and with spears. He’s all of thirty-one and he’s only seventeen  Been a soldier for a thousand years. He’a a Catholic a Hindu an Atheist a Jain   A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.  And he knows he shouldn’t kill  And he knows he always will Kill you for me my friend and me for you. And he’s fighting for Canada He’s fighting for France  He’s fighting for the USA  And he’s fighting for the Russians  And he’s fighting for Japan  And he thinks we’ll put an end to war this way. And he’s fighting for Democracy He’s fighting for the Reds  He says it’s for the peace of all.  He’s the one who must decide  Who’s to live and who’s to die  And he never sees the writing on the wall. But without him how would Hitler  have condemned him at Dachau ?  Without him Caesar would have stood alone  He’s the one who gives his body  As a weapon of the war  And without him all this killing can’t go on.  He’s the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame  His orders come from far away no more  They come from here and there and you and me  And brothers can’t you see  This is not the way we put the end to war.