The Day The Sun Stood Still Lyrics

The Day The Sun Stood Still lyrics

We were young and bound for glory

Itchin' for a fight like you

Bringin' hell and purgatory

To the boys who wore the blue



And I thought I'd seen it all

Till the day night wouldn't fall

Oh, how the sun did blaze

Wouldn't go down for days



I got shot and lost my rifle

When the first wave hit the rise

And the guns rolled out like thunder

And the black smoke burned my eyes



And I watched it all unfold

Just the way the Bible told

Joshua's endless day

Keepin' the night at bay



And the soldiers kept a comin'

'Til the ground looked like a sea

Of blue and gray

And I watched it from a distance

Wonderin' if I would've fought or run away



The day the sun stood still

How they beat the bloody drums

And the seconds moved like hours

But the sunset never comes



And the cannons shake the ground

And the bullets test your will

Even shadows found no cover

On that God forsaken hill

The day the sun stood still



I watched them lean their shoulders

To the fearful hail of lead

And I prayed for night to save us

And I cried and bowed my head



But the sun just kept a-creepin'

'Cross a cold indifferent sky

Castin' a deadly glow

On all the men below



All the hours in a lifetime

Don't add up to one whole minute in that sun

And the heroes and the cowards

Look the same when they have fallen by the gun

The day the sun stood still



And the north and south looked west

But the evening star was sleeping

And the daylight wouldn't rest

Out on the killing floor



The red sun on the the hill

Shinin' down on all the dead men

With a strange and eerie chill

The day the sun stood still



Do not judge what you brother does

'Til you've walked a mile

Rank by bloody file

Who's to say if you'll run or stay and fight?



The day the sun stood still

Is just beneath the skin

In the soul of every soldier

Every battle that he's in



The day the sun stood still

Will haunt your dreams at night

And stalk your every sunrise

Though you will not know it till



The day the sun stood still

How they beat the bloody drums

And the seconds moved like hours

But the sunset never comes



And the cannons shake the ground

And the bullets test your will

Even shadows found no cover

On that God forsaken hill



The day the sun stood still

The day the sun stood still

The day the sun stood still