Stevie Wonder - Front Line lyrics

I am a veteran of the war
I up and joined the army back in 1964
At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost
I volunteered for Vietnam where I
Got my leg shot off

I recall a quote from a movie
That said "Who's more a man
Than a man with a reason
That's worth dying for"

They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the
Line when it comes to getting ahead

They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill
To stop the big urge I might have
For the wrong kind of thrill
They put a gun in my hand and said
"Shoot until he's dead
But, it's hard to kill when 'please
I'm your friend' echoes through your head

Brought up in church taught no
Man should take another's life
But then put in a jungle
Where life has no price

They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the
Line when it comes to getting ahead

Back in the world the paper reads today
Another war is in the brewing
But what about the lives of yesterday
And the many happy families
That have been ruined

My niece is a hooker and
My nephew's a junkie too
But they say I have no right to
Tell them how they should do
They laugh and say "Quit bragging" 'bout the
War you should never have been in
But my mind is so brain-washed I'd probably
Go back and do it again

I walk the neighborhood parading
My purple heart with a fear of agent orange
That no one will stop, no

They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the
Line when it comes to getting ahead, yeah
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
Now I stand at the back of the
Line when it comes to getting ahead
Could you believe I do?
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the
Line when it comes to getting ahead