[Lieutenant] So you're caught in the night Of a new firefight In a jungle that's so hot that it Steams An explosion just ahead Does announce the newly dead Is it right to call a nightmare a Dream And the tracers probe on 'Till a close friend is gone And you find yourself embracing Ground And the foe is as near As the silence you hear As he stops to load in another Round Battles raging It's all staging 'Till you realize... Another way you can die Still you know they're out there Feel their eyes, feel their stares Though there's not a single life Can see But you now fire back For their tracers leave tracks Pointing out the places where they Must be Though a gun is taken out There's another have no doubt And so you must continue the game And you know in this fight That the value of life On the other side is not quite the Same Battles raging It's all staging As your mind denies Another way you can... I see a figure in my rifle sight Who does not know that he's there And as I hesitate to take his life The ground explodes My blood it flows My heart is racing Times escaping As I feel it slowly scraping by