Bon Jovi: Unbroken

i was born to be of service
camp Lejeune just felt like home
I had honor, I found purpose
sir, yes, that’s what I know

they sent us to a place
I’d never heard of weeks before
when you’re 19 it ain’t hard to sleep
in the desert on God’s floor

close your eyes
stop counting sheep
you ain’t in boot camp anymore

we were taught to shoot our rifles
men and women side by side
though we’d be met as liberators
in a thousand-year-old fight

I got this paintful ringing in my ear
from an IED last night
but no lead-lined Humvee war machine
could save my sergeant’s life

there more soldiers
6 civilians
need these words to come out right

God of mercy, god of light
save your children from this life
hear these words, this humble plea
fro I have seen the suffering
and whit this prayer I am hoping
that we can be unbroken

it’s 18 months now I’ve been stateside
whit this medal on my chest
but there are things I can’t remember
and there are things I won’t forget

I lie awake at night
whit dreams the devil shouldn’t see
I want to scream but I can’t breathe
and , Christ, I am sweating through these sheets

where’s my brothers?
where’s my country?
where’s my how0things-used0to0be

God of mercy, god of light
save your children from this life
hear these words, this humble plea
fro I have seen the suffering
and whit this prayer I am hoping
that we can be unbroken

my service dog’s done more for me
than the mediction would
there ain’t no angel that’s coming to save me
but even if the could

today 22 will die from suicide
just like yesterday, they’re gone
I live my life for each tomorrow
so their memories will live on

once we were boys and we were strangers
now we’re brothers and we’re men
someday you’;; ask me “Was it worth it
to be of service in the end?”

well, the blessing and the curse is
Yeah, I’d do iit all again