Musical Mood of the Moment

[VaBeachGuy 12]

This is a song I heard during the holidays and intended to share here but never got around to it. I wanted to post it now with the lyrics printed and the music video attached as well because to me it is a moving song with a couple of powerful lines in it. If you want to have a little bit of understanding of what a soldier is this song will help.

 

This song really won't mean a lot to anyone that is not an American but I think if you replace the word American with your nationality it would ring true for your soldiers as well.

 

For anyone that listens to this or watches the video, the lines that are really powerful in my mind are these:

 

And I will always do my duty no matter what the price

I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice

Oh, and I don't want to die for you

but if dyin's asked of me

I'll bear that cross with honor

'cause freedom don't come free

 

This illustrates something I said on another thread about the military. Soldiers don't want to die, but do so so you won't have to.

 

And

 

I'm out here on the front lines

Sleep in peace tonight

 

To me this is a very strong line. It conjures up nights of guard duty in the freezing cold rain and snow at 4am (after only sleeping for 2 hours before that). After guard duty is over (usually a 2 hour shift) it's 6am and time to start the day's work. Soldiers do that so we can all sleep in peace at night.

 

Here's the link for the song:

 

American Soldier Music

 

American Soldier Video

 

The video is about 10mb if you want to directly download it here's a link (just right click on it and click "Save Target As":

 

American Soldier WMV

 

 

 

American Soldier Lyrics

 

I'm just trying to be a father

Raise a daughter and a son

Be a lover to their mother

Everything to everyone

Up and at 'em, bright and early

I'm all business in my suit

Yeah, I'm dressed up for success

From my head down to my boots

 

I don't do it for the money

There's bills that I can't pay

I don't do it for the glory

I just do it anyway

Providing for our future's my responsibility

Yeah I'm real good under pressure

Being all that I can be

 

And I can't call in sick on Mondays

when the weekends been too strong

I just work straight through the holidays

And sometimes all night long

You can bet that I stand ready when the wolf growls at the door

Hey, I'm solid, hey I'm steady, hey, I'm true down to the core

 

And I will always do my duty no matter what the price

I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice

Oh, and I don't want to die for you

but if dyin's asked of me

I'll bear that cross with honor

'cause freedom don't come free

 

I'm an American soldier, an American

beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand

when liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right

I'm out here on the front lines

Sleep in peace tonight

American soldier, I'm an American soldier

 

Yeah, an American soldier, an American

beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand

when liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right

I'm out here on the front lines

So Sleep in peace tonight

American soldier, I'm an American

An American, an American soldier

[she_wolf 0]

Thankyou very much for sharing that with everyone,

my husbsnd was a soldier in the Australian Army and was always away

and when he did come home, there was always another guard dutie,or another excercie he had to do.

 

thanks again,that was great :P

[Ace 0]

Yeh, that's Toby Keith's big song right now. One of our military boys on the board here even has an excerpt from that song in his sig.