Wear My Medals (Unplugged)

Welcome to the crested moon lands

Building schools for stripes on command

Sweets for the children and broken Arabic

I’ll be home before I get homesick

Suspicion under a child’s coat

Protect the ones you depend on most

So, I screamed stop and wished my fears were true

‘Cause I took one life to save the few

I was forced to make choices

that would keep me up at night

How dare you say that I went AWOL

No empire would fall

RSL wouldn’t call

Or the DVA

And I came home to fight another war

Staring at feet his head in his hands

It’s good to be back but I’m mostly there

 but all the booze, bags and the girls

just like the medals they don’t cure the guilt

I was forced to make choices

that would keep me up at night

How dare you say that I went AWOL

No empire would fall

RSL wouldn’t call

Or the DVA

And I came home to fight another war

You won’t find me at the club house

and you can wear my medals this year

‘cause I can’t take another come down

until they cut me down

I was forced to make choices

that would keep me up at night

How dare you say that I went AWOL

No empire would fall

RSL wouldn’t call

Or the DVA

And I came home to fight another war

You won’t find me at the club house