Universal Soldier

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
 He's been a soldier for a thousand years
 He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain
 A Buddhist and a Baptist 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 Canada, he's fighting for France
 He's fighting for the USA
 And he's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
 And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
 And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds
 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 walls
 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 to a war
 And without him all this killing can't go on
 He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
 But his orders come from far away no more
 They come from him and you and me, and brothers, can't you see?
 This is not the way we put an end to war