johnny woke up in the morning and his face was red there's a dog in the yard and the cat, it's dead tell me, what good is a war going to do him? the bullets rip through him and all my life I wonder what a mess we've gotten ourselves into and I struggle and I strive to get these knots out of my life and they... they built a plane and it's as fast as hell it was swell and it could kill a million dead in the desert there's a baby crying mother's gone and his face is red now tell me, what good is war gonna do him? as the mutts starts to chew him up he's nothing but a corpse in the sand now johnny woke up in the morning now his hands are red daddy's in the yard cause now mommy is dead tell me, what good is a war gonna do him? as the television rips right through him and all my life I wonder what a mess we've gotten ourselves into and we struggle and we strive to get these knots out our my lives and all my life I have been waiting so long for you to be there with me because I know one day we can be as one