Merciless Wind

He was a shy one And she told a lie once to give him the courage to go She said that she loved him and the good lord above him Would see that he found his way home He went off to war and she thought no more of him Or all of the things that she'd said A taste for the blood in the rain and the mud Something changed in his heart and his head And he did it for her when he piled up the dead She never thought that she'd taken his heart She was trying to be just a friend Cause boys sent to fight wars need something they'll die for And most never came home again And she figured his fate would be like other men But he cut through the enemy like a merciless wind He got shot down on a cold piece of ground And he thought of those words when he died He knew that the little woman waiting back home for him Was all that had kept him alive Through the merciless winds and those murderous nights. --- Merciless Wind - Elliott Brood