Goodnight Saigon Lyrics

Goodnight Saigon lyrics

We met as soulmates
On Parris Inland
we left as inmates
from an
asylum
and we were sharp
as sharp as knives
and we were so gung ho to
lay down our lives.

We came in spastic
like tameless horses
we
left in plastic
as numbered corpses
and we learned fast
to travel
light
our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight

we had no
homefront
we had no soft soap
they sent us playboy
they gave us bob
hope
we dug in deep
and shot on sight
and prayed to Jesus Christ with
all of our might.

We had no cameras
to shoot the landscape
we
passed the hash pipe
and played our Doors tapes
and it was dark..
so
dark at night
and we held onto each other
like brother to bother
we
promised our mothers we'd write

(chorus)
and we would all go down
together
we said we'd all go down together
yes we would all go down
together.

Remember Charlie?
remember Baker?
they left their
childhood
on every acre
and who was wrong,
and who was right?
It
didn't matter in the thick of the fight,...

We, held the day,..
in
the palm of our hands
They, ruled the night
And the night, seemed to last
as long as six weeks
On Parris Island
We held the coastline
they held
the highland
and they were sharp
as sharp as knives
they heard the hum
of the mortars
they counted the rotors
and waited for us to
arrive

(repeat chorus)