Seth Glier - Plastic Soldiers lyrics

rate me

I had grass stains for scars

Eight years old in my backyard

I played with army men in blue sky afternoon

Out of the pine trees and sap

Plastic soldiers would attack

In my imaginary wars I led platoons

[Chorus]

Come home, soldier, dinner’s getting colder

It’s time to put your toys away

Marching orders, backyard borders

You will live to fight another day

Put those plastic soldiers away

At an army base in Kabul

I was nineteen kicking up gravel

From a Humvee, a flash of light burst through the floor

An RPG, the metal scraped, the shrapnel took both my legs

Now I’m living in this body

I’m a prisoner of war

[Chorus]

Come home, soldier, dinner’s getting colder

It’s time to put your toys away

Marching orders, backyard borders

You will live to fight another day

Put those plastic soldiers away

A box of soldiers from the attic

GI-Joes with automatics

Toys are saved, passed down to my own

He was running through the backyard

Wearing grass stains like old scars

My legs are made of steel and silicone

[Chorus]

Come home, soldier, dinner’s getting colder

It’s time to put your toys away

Marching orders, backyard borders

You will live to fight another day

Put those plastic soldiers away

Put those plastic soldiers away

Put those plastic soldiers away

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