Another Way You Can Die

So you're caught in the night of a new firefight

In a jungle that's so hot that it steams

An explosion just ahead does announce the newly dead

Is it right to call a nightmare a dream?

And the tracers probe on 'til a close friend is gone

And you find yourself embracing ground

And your foe is as near as the silence you hear

As he stops to load in another round

Battles raging, it's all staging 'til you realize

Another way you can die

Still you know they're out there, feel their eyes, feel their stares

Though there's not a single life can see

But you now fire back for their tracers leave tracks

Pointing out the places where they must be

Though a gun's taken out, there's another, no doubt

And so you must continue the game

And you know in this fight that the value of life

On the other side is not quite the same

Battles raging, it's all staging as your mind denies

Another way you can

I see a figure in my rifle sight who does not know that he's there

And as I hesitate to take his life

The ground explodes, my blood, it flows

My heart is racing, time's escaping as

I feel it slowly scraping by