First Aid Kit Universal Soldier song lyrics

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four

He fights with missiles and with spears

He's all of thirty one, and he's only seventeen

Been a soldier for a thousand years

He's a Christian, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,

A Buddhist, and a Muslim, and a Jew

And he knows he shouldn't kill

And he knows he always will

Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you

And he's fighting for Palestine

He's fighting for Israel

He's fighting for the USA

And he's fighting for the Russians

And he's fighting for Iraq

And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for Democracy

He's fighting for his soil

He says: "It's for the peace of all"

He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die

And he never sees the writing on the wall

But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?

Without him Caesar would have stood alone

He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war

And without him all this killing can't go on

He's the universal soldier

And he is really is to blame

His orders come from far away no more

They come from here and there, and you and me

And brother, can't you see

This is not the way we put an end to war