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Front Line (1982 Musiquarium Version)

I am a veteran of the war

I up and joined the army back in nineteen-sixty-four

At sixteen, I just had to be a man at any cost

I volunteered for Vietnam, where I got my leg shot off

I recall a quote form a movie that said "who's more a man

Than a man with a reason that's worth dyin' for?"They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' aheadThey gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill

To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill

They put a gun in my hand and said "shoot until he's dead"

But it's hard to kill when "please, I'm your friend" echoes through your head

Brought up in church taught no man should take another's life

But then put in the jungle where life has no price, noThey had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' aheadBack in the world, the paper reads today

Another war is in the brewing

But what about the lives of yesterday?

And the many happy families that have been ruined?

My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie, too

But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do

They laugh and say quit "braggin' 'bout the war you should have never been in"

But my mind is so brainwashed I'd probably go back and do it again

I walk the neighborhood, parading my purple heart

With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop, noThey had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' aheadThey had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' aheadWould you believe I do?

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead

Songwriters

STEVIE WONDERPublished by

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