He's five foot-two and he's six feet-four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

He's fighting for Britain and he's fighting for Iraq
He's fighting for the U.S.A
And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for democracy
He's fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
And he never sees the writing on the wall

But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Liebau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
And without him all this killing can't go on

He's the universal soldier, he really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from here and there and you and me
And brothers/sisters, can't you see?
This is not the way we put the end to war