Never Looking Back-Bertie Higgins

[ti:Never Looking Back] [ar:Bertie Higgins] [al:Pirates and Poets] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.06]Never Looking Back - Bertie Higgins [00:01.85]Composed by：Donna Dupuy/Healy John M/Higgins Elbert Joseph [00:26.31]The soldier boy in Hanoi [00:28.75]Got by by staying high [00:32.00]Back in '68 [00:33.75]Was the only way that he could cope [00:38.51]You learned to kill or you learned to die [00:41.80]The strong and the stoned seem to survive [00:45.12]So between the bong and the blood and the bullets [00:47.94]He chose to live while he smoked his hope [00:51.76]At 21 he laid down his gun [00:54.57]A hero in Nixon's lie [00:57.32]There was pressure on the president [00:59.81]To bring the boys back home [01:04.02]Because he'd played his part [01:07.07]They gave him a broken purple heart [01:10.38]Then cut him loose to find his way [01:13.40]Soon forgotten and alone [01:16.81]The veteran of the war [01:19.87]But wars are all the same [01:22.92]Another pawn another believer [01:26.04]Another loser in the game [01:29.44]But losers learn to be winners [01:32.53]They learn to refuse to play [01:35.49]And now he's never looking back [01:37.64]Never looking back [01:41.74]At the VA [01:55.38]His old friends had found a new flame [01:58.05]The white lady was her name [02:01.33]They made the introduction [02:03.41]They taught him how to connect [02:08.00]Columbia to Peru [02:10.63]He was the best at flying through [02:14.02]Wearing Guccis on his feet [02:16.55]And gold around his neck [02:20.56]One night it all came down [02:23.74]When he was Miami bound [02:26.64]He took a fall from a 747 [02:29.48]Behind his mule [02:33.38]And know it took some time [02:36.12]To find the Judas who dropped the dime [02:39.86]He bailed out long enough [02:41.70]And he wasted the fool [02:46.02]The veteran of the war [02:49.10]But wars are all the same [02:52.30]Another pawn another believer [02:55.53]Another loser in the game [02:58.79]But losers learn to be winners [03:01.80]When they learn to refuse to play [03:04.66]And now he's never looking back [03:06.86]Never looking back [03:10.64]At the DEA [03:37.06]When he finally made parole [03:40.20]He left the last of his mortal soul [03:43.59]In the solitary heart [03:46.12]Of a Florida cell [03:50.30]But he knew he wasn't beat [03:53.11]His education was complete [03:56.30]From the lesson learned [03:58.71]From yet another lifetime in hell [04:02.87]Looking back for one last time [04:05.85]Thinking 'bout how he'd bought up all their lines [04:09.16]And paid through the nose [04:11.20]For a lovely bunch of lies [04:15.66]He found he was his only friend [04:18.97]Bound to escape the bitter end [04:22.18]Left alone again he started pushing hard for paradise [04:28.34]The veteran of the war [04:31.55]But wars are all the same [04:34.74]Another pawn another believer [04:37.71]Another loser in the game [04:41.05]But losers learn to be winners [04:44.12]When they learn to refuse to play [04:47.07]And now he's never looking back [04:49.21]Never looking back [04:53.25]At FLA [05:00.09]Now he's hiding from the heat [05:03.73]In a mansion on Martinique [05:06.32]It's so much cooler down there [05:08.03]Counting cash under a paddle fan [05:13.25]He's forgotten old friends and jail [05:16.32]To hell with the Ho Chi Minh trail [05:19.43]He's just another lonely quiet and rich [05:23.38]Ex American [05:26.11]The veteran of the war [05:29.08]But wars are all the same [05:32.15]Another pawn another believer [05:35.33]Another loser in the game [05:38.58]But losers learn to be winners [05:41.86]When they learn to refuse to play [05:44.75]And now he's never looking back [05:46.73]Never looking back [05:50.38]At the USA [05:54.72]The veteran of the war [05:57.72]But wars are all the same [06:00.92]Another pawn another believer [06:03.92]Another loser in the game [06:07.31]But losers learn to be winners [06:10.34]When they learn to refuse to play [06:13.39]And now he's never looking back [06:15.53]Never looking back [06:19.00]At the USA [06:22.79]The veteran of the war [06:26.33]But wars are all the same [06:29.26]Another pawn another believer [06:32.49]Another loser in the game [06:35.91]But losers learn to be winners [06:39.08]When they learn to refuse to play [06:41.91]And now he's never looking back [06:44.03]Never looking back [06:47.74]At the USA [06:51.87]The veteran of the war [06:54.88]But wars are all the same [06:57.93]Another pawn another believer [07:01.14]Another loser in the game [07:04.44]But losers learn to be winners [07:07.47]When they learn to refuse to play