Before You Got Him Dead

Each time your bullet takes "just another soldier"
Each time "just another man" falls to the ground
Each time "just another enemy's" life is taken
By that loud, earsplitting sound

To you that man was just another soldier
To the parents, he was their whole world
To a woman, he was her better half
He was a daddy to a little girl

You never even saw his face
He was just another in the way of a win
But a family out there is changed forever
The minute that bullet went in

You tell your children violence isn't the answer
Yet we turn around to endless blood shed
Think of the life that man had
Before you got him dead