The Pilgrim's Address Songtext
von Fish

Mr President, you don′t know my name
But you could find it if you really cared
Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues
And all I ask for in return is the truth
Can we just be honest? I've heard that speech is free
So please believe me that this address is sincere
I′m no one special, just a regular guy
But I just can't keep on wondering why
That the shells we fired, they now kill our own
And we waste away like shadows in our homes

I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms
I froze in firefights, I killed someone
That had a father who loved him just like mine
Who believed the sacrifice was justified
In the name of freedom and in the name of God
While shifting sands hid all our sins and all our blood
In the wake of glory, I flew back home


I watched videos at night in my uniform
Of those towns and cities being blown apart
By those bombs that fool the people by being smart
As they flew down chimneys, flew along corridors
And explode on film and everyone goes "Awwwww"

And you read the stories about how no one's killed
And I think about the photos that I′ve kept
To remind me that it was all for you
And the ghost that I′ve become will be released
To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies
About what really happened and who really died
Was it really worth it? Was it worth the cost?
Did we really take the high ground or have we lost
All the more battles, did we lose the war?

Mr President, I need to know for sure
That with all this knowledge and all this control
That we were on the right side after all
That we weren't lied to, that we weren′t used

And the country that we fought for still holds the truth


Mr President, you don't know my name
But you could find it if you really cared
It′s on a black wall, it's on a cross of stone
It′s in the Falkland states that Gulf and close to home
On lots of foreign islands and on city streets
Mr President, just tell me why I'm here
This is my question, this is my life
This is my address

Mr President
Mr President
Mr President
This is my address
This is my address
This is my address
Mr President
Mr President
This is my address
Ride on, ride on