♪ Tears on water,
a veteran's daughter,
never been a war ♪
♪ Never knew what the fighting was for,
living here ♪
♪ I've been any time on the front line and I live in hell,
but I've seen it spelled and I feel it ♪
♪ They're bombs and bullets and the only way to kill a man,
when no one understands what you've been through ♪
♪ And the gift you gave is a gift I want to give to you,
so I'm just praying that you find peace,
oh ♪
♪ Now the job you chose never gave you the choice,
you were never free,
but from the things you'd see and do ♪
♪ Everybody
knows that you gotta let it go when you imagine that,
but it just keeps coming back,
now you
know ♪
♪ They're bombs and bullets and the only way to kill a man,
when no one understands what you've been through ♪
♪ And the gift you gave is a gift I want to give to you,
so I'm just praying that you find peace, oh ♪
♪ I pray that you can see
that your silence ain't protecting me,
now you can whisper to me, oh, shell,
but God just let it out ♪
♪ Daddy,
let it out,
cause bombs and bullets are the only way to kill a man,
just trying to understand what you've been through ♪
♪ And the gift you gave is a gift I want to give to you,
so I'm just praying that you find peace, oh ♪
♪ Bombs and bullets are the only way to kill a man,
just trying to understand what you've been through ♪