[Verse 1: Lieutenant]
So you're caught in the night of a new firefight
In a jungle that's so hot that it steams
An explosion just ahead
Does announce the newly dead
Is it right to call a nightmare a dream?
And the tracers probe on 'till a close friend is gone
And you find yourself embracing ground
And your foe is as near as the silence you hear
As he stops to load in another round

[Chorus: Lieutenant]
Battles raging
It's all staging
'Til you realize
Another way you can die

[Verse 2: Lieutenant]
Still you know you're out there
Feel their eyes, feel their stares
Though there's not a single life you can see
But you now fire back
For their tracers leave tracks
Pointing out the places where they must be
Though a gun's taken out, there's another no doubt
And so you must continue the game
And you know in this fight that the value of life
On the other side is not quite the same
[Chorus: Lieutenant]
Battles raging
It's all staging
As your mind denies
Another way you can

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge: Lieutenant]
I see a figure in my rifle sight who does not know that he's there
And as I hesitate to take his life
The ground explodes, my blood it flows
My heart is racing times escaping
As I feel it slowly scraping by

[Instrumental Outro]