[00:00.00] 作词 : Jason Medeiros[00:01.00] 作曲 : Robert de Boron[00:25.53]When he was young he use to play with toy guns[00:28.30]He’d say it was for fun but really it was the feel of it[00:31.07]He acted silly but Billy loved the appeal of it[00:32.68]Though its just plastic his roles got drastic[00:34.14]Sound effects would blow he’d black mask it[00:38.22]Around his neck would glow that classic Rambo medallion[00:40.09]He use to dream of Lambo’s, Italian Mafioso, Commando, battalions[00:44.37]He would lead them through the dark of winter[00:49.00]He would leave them when his mom had started dinner[00:51.77]At the table with his bleeding elbows[00:53.18]Even when eating he needed his G.I. Joe’s[00:56.56]By his side guarding his pride[00:58.72]A soldier or a poet it got harder to decide[01:02.34]The fun ends as the evening unravels[01:04.78]A young mans ego so fragile[01:26.98]A now he’s hitting his teens still drifting in between[01:29.95]Wanting to be a writer wanting to be a fighter[01:32.37]He’s starting to wonder which was mightier[01:34.94]And found one[01:36.86]The difference between Martin and Malcolm[01:38.82]He couldn’t see it in the outcome[01:40.64]They didn't live to see it[01:42.15]Now how come[01:43.11]Was the thought he saw the ones who fought[01:45.12]He saw the ones who got caught in their cross fire[01:48.14]His boss fired him and the cause[01:50.46]He was reading Che Guevara instead of him parking cars[01:53.28]Who writes the laws who enforces them[01:54.79]Born to win, born to loose, born again[01:58.51]Mortal men with an ego so fragile[02:00.93]Reading as the meaning unravels[02:02.94]Was it a bullet to the head or the words to the brain[02:06.70]That brought about more change[02:49.43]It’s been a long time since the toy guns and the acting bigger[02:52.60]Active trigger now he a real action figure[02:54.92]The military made it harder to decide[02:57.08]A soldier and a poet now the poet guards his pride[02:59.55]You see his views we see them on the evening news[03:02.62]We read the words found hidden in his B.D.U.’s[03:05.40]We loose sight with an eye for an eye[03:07.36]Were the last words written on the night that he died[03:10.83]In a book they gave to his son the day he turned 21[03:14.61]The day he learned of young men who have come to an end[03:17.93]Of his father who held his gun but held harder to his pen[03:20.50]A martyr born again every time his book was opened[03:22.42]And the mind that provoked it[03:25.29]Was it the words from his hands or the bullet from a gun[03:28.72]That kept a man alive for his son