Merciless Wind - Elliott Brood

He was a shy one

And she told a lie once to give him the courage to go

She said that she loved him and the good lord above him

Would see that he found his way home

He went off to war and she thought no more of him

Or all of the things that she’d said

A taste for the blood in the rain and the mud

Something changed in his heart and his head

And he did it for her when he piled up the dead

She never thought that she’d taken his heart

Sh was trying to be just a friend

Cause boys snt to fight wars need something they’ll die for

And most never came home again

And she figured his fate would be like other men

But he cut through the enemy like a merciless wind

He got shot down on a cold piece of ground

And he thought of those words when he died

He knew that the little woman waiting back home for him

Was all that had kept him alive

Through the merciless winds and those murderous nights