Dawn breaks and I feel tropical rain fall down
on all here below on the ground.
Men walking to hear the sound of one helicopter
bursting in flame going down
Hold on, boy, don't lose your mind.
Hold on, boy, it's no time to cry.
Love of life and one semiautomatic rifle to a shoulder
sure made a man out of me.
Face to face I see the eyes of the enemy
older than any child ought to be
Hold on, boy, don't lose your mind.
Hold on, boy, it's no time to cry.
Warm whispers, soft summer laughter
"I love you's don't fade away
old feelings almost forgotten
wait for me just one more Delta day.
Night falls so soft on the dead
and hard on the living,
silent and still where we lay.
Oh, God, protect us
the children of a misunderstanding
victims of games people play.
Hold on, boy, don't lose your mind.
Hold on, boy, it's no time to cry.