Unbroken

I was born to be of service

Camp Lejeune just felt like home

I had honor I found purpose

Sir yes sir that's what I know

They sent us to a place

I never heard of weeks before

When you're nineteen it ain't hard to sleep

In the desert on God's floor

Close your eyes stop counting sheep

You ain't in boot camp anymore

We were taught to shoot our rifles

Then in one then side by side

Thought we'd be made as liberators

In a thousand-year-old fight

I got this painful ringing in my ear

From an IED last night

But no lead-lined Humvee war machine

Could save my sergeant's life

Three more soldiers six civilians

Need these words to come out right

God of mercy God of light

Save your children from this life

Here these words this humble plea

For I have seen the suffering

And with this prayer I'm hopin'

That we can be unbroken

It's eighteen months now I've been stateside

With this medal on my chest

But there are things I can't remember

And there are things I won't forget

I lie awake at night

With dreams that devils shouldn't see

I wanna scream but I can't breathe

And Christ I'm sweatin' through these sheets

Where's my brothers where's my country

Where's my how things used to be

God of mercy God of light

Save your children from this life

Here these words this humble plea

For I have seen the suffering

And with this prayer I'm hopin'

That we can be unbroken

My service dog's done more for me

Than the medication would

There ain't no angel that's comin' to save me

But even if they could

Today twenty-two will die from suicide

Just like yesterday they're gone

I live my life for each tomorrow

So their memories will live on

Once we were boys and we were strangers

Now we're brothers and we're men

Someday you'll ask me was it worth it

To be of service in the end

Well the blessing and the curses

Yeah I'd do it all again

Whoa-oh-oh-oh

Whoa-oh-oh-oh

Whoa-oh-oh-oh

Whoa-oh-oh

Whoa-oh-oh-oh

Whoa-oh-oh

Whoa-oh yeah