Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls
They lined us up
One by one
Soldiers in a row

Call us to attention
Our will is your own
Give us your demands

For all we are 
Is paper dolls
Strangers in the streets
Brothers at war

My orders in hand
Paper is trembling
The sendoff to another land

Gave me a gun
Was heavier than it looked
The cold metal chilled me to the bone

For all we are 
Is paper dolls
Strangers in the streets
Brothers at war

Walked off the plane
In this alien land
Unfamiliar terrain left me frozen

Grew up overnight
In the country 
I had been exiled to

For all we are 
Is paper dolls
Strangers in the streets
Brothers at war

Made it home
Left some brothers behind
And I’ll never be the same

They hail me a hero
Feels like a lie
I’m nothing more than a paper doll

For all we are 
Is paper dolls
Strangers in the streets
Brothers at war