Front Line-Stevie Wonder

[ti:Front Line] [ar:Stevie Wonder] [al:Original Musiquarium 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Front Line (前线) - Stevie Wonder (史蒂夫·汪德) [00:22.38]I am a veteran of the war [00:26.31] [00:27.75]I up and joined the army back an 1964 [00:31.44] [00:33.12]At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost [00:37.11] [00:38.48]I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off [00:42.60] [00:44.10]I recall a quote form a movie [00:46.03]That said "Who's more a man [00:48.34] [00:49.46]Than a man with a reason [00:50.84]That's worth dyin' for" [00:53.02] [00:55.09]They had me standing on the front line [00:58.51] [01:00.38]They had me standing on the front line [01:03.94] [01:05.81]They had me standing on the front line [01:09.37] [01:10.00]But now I stand at the back of the line [01:12.06]When it comes to gettin' ahead [01:14.05] [01:16.67]They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill [01:20.55] [01:22.11]To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill [01:26.04] [01:27.54]They put a gun in my hand and said "Shoot until he's dead" [01:31.53] [01:32.78]But it's hard to kill when "Please I'm your friend" [01:35.40]Echoes through your head [01:37.09] [01:38.39]Brought up in church [01:39.77]Taught no man should take another's life [01:42.70] [01:43.76]But then put in the jungle [01:45.13]Where life has no price no [01:48.40] [01:49.33]They had me standing on the front line [01:52.83] [01:54.20]They had me standing on the front line [01:58.32] [02:00.19]They had me standing on the front line [02:04.18]But now I stand at the back of the line [02:06.25]When it comes to gettin' ahead [02:08.49] [02:11.05]Back in the world the paper reads today [02:14.92] [02:16.29]Another war is in the brewing [02:19.66] [02:21.85]But what about the lives of yesterday [02:26.27]And the many happy families that have been ruined [02:31.58] [02:32.70]My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie too [02:36.69] [02:37.94]But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do [02:42.12] [02:43.56]They laugh and say "Quit braggin' [02:45.55]'Bout the war you should have never been in" [02:47.81] [02:48.86]But my mind is so brain-washed [02:51.11]I'd probably go back and do it again [02:53.10] [02:54.42]I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart [02:59.22] [02:59.91]With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop no [03:04.28] [03:05.33]They had me standing on the front line [03:08.95] [03:10.39]They had me standing on the front line [03:14.32] [03:16.26]They had me standing on the front line [03:19.69] [03:20.38]But now I stand at the back of the line [03:22.20]When it comes to gettin' ahead [03:24.71] [03:26.95]They had me standing on the front line [03:30.58] [03:32.51]They had me standing on the front line [03:35.88] [03:37.94]They had me standing on the front line [03:41.44] [03:42.06]Now I stand at the back of the line [03:44.06]When it comes to gettin' ahead [03:47.18]Would you believe I do [03:48.80]They had me standing on the front line [03:52.29] [03:53.79]They had me standing on the front line [03:57.72] [03:59.72]They had me standing on the front line [04:03.15] [04:03.66]But now I stand at the back of the line [04:06.02]When it comes to gettin' ahead