I was up late on night thinking about my time in the Marines and had a song draft penned in a few minutes.
Not a really good song writter but I have done a dozen songs or so of things that have happen in my life, or things I have seen. This song lyrics are no different, I was thinking of all Marines in this song so don’t read into it.
“Doing what we had to do” by William Davison
Doing what we had to do
Listening to the proud, listening to the few
Holding back deep tears every night
When we didn’t know what to say about our fight
To our God, our family, our chosen few
If it meant they didn’t know
All the suffering we had to do
My letters home were sometimes true
Keep this light on going, For the ones we knew
The ones that never made it through
We were always proud, always tough
don’t think we knew it was going to be this rough
As a Marine I will tell you one thing
As we served… it meant everything
As a Marine I will tell you one thing
As we served… it meant everything
Stacked up like little army men
Our friends, our life, our chosen kin
I don’t think we could ever foresee
All those battles across the sea
As a Marine I will tell you one thing
As we served… it meant everything
Just how it all might end?
Would we recover, would we ever mend?
Our young hearts, our dreams to be, always meant to fight
I look back now … a little older…living a very different life
As a Marine I will tell you one thing
As we served… it meant everything
Turns out... I am Crazy! 