These Colours Don't Run [A Matter of Life and Death, 2006]
It's the same in every country when you say you're leaving Left behind the loved ones waiting silent in the hall Where you're going lies adventure others only dream of Red and green light this is real and so you go to war
For the passion, for the glory, for the memories, for the money You're a soldier, for your country, what's the difference, all the same
Far away from the land of our birth We fly a flag in some foreign earth We sailed away like our fathers before These colours don't run, from cold bloody war
There is no one that will save you, going down in flames No surrender certain death you look it in the eye On the shores of tyranny you crashed a human wave Paying for my freedom with your lonely unmarked graves
For the passion, for the glory, for the memories, for the money You're a soldier, for your country, what's the difference, all the same
Far away from the land of our birth We fly a flag in some foreign earth We sailed away like our fathers before These colours don't run, from cold bloody war.