Scars and stripes forever
Each woman, man, and child
Will bear a mark of battle
Somewhere deep inside
And each if us will carry it
It’s what we’ve always done
We sacrifice our wholeness
For the land that makes us one
He lost all his buddies
Fighting on distant shores
Some to enemy bullets
Some to foreign swords
When he got home after years gone
He’d lost his old friends too
No one felt the things he did
No one got what he’d been through
Scars and stripes forever
Each woman, man, and child
Will bear a mark of battle
Somewhere deep inside
And each if us will carry it
It’s what we’ve always done
We sacrifice our wholeness
For the land that makes us one
She had a family of four sons
A happy bunch they were
Til all those boys were called away
To keep their momma safe
Then one by one they were each claimed
Til only one remained
His heart gone with his brothers
His legs gone much the same
She lost a sister
He lost a father
He lost his best friend in the world
To ensure freedom for all
So be sure you’re thankful for…
Scars and stripes forever
Each woman, man, and child
Will bear a mark of battle
Somewhere deep inside
And each if us will carry it
It’s what we’ve always done
We sacrifice our wholeness
For the land that makes us one
For our land that makes us one
Sister and bothers we become
Under the flag that makes us one