Lyrics:

Guitar Intro

Mr. President, you don't know my name,
But you could find it if you really cared,
Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,
All I ask for in return is the truth,
Can we just be honest, I've heard that speech is free
So please believe me that this address is sincere
I'm no one special, just a regular guy
But I just can't keep on wondering why
That the shells we fired they now kill our own
And we waste away like shadows in our homes.

I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms
I froze in firefights and killed someone,
That had a father who loved him just like mine
Who believed the sacrifice was justified,
In the name of freedom and in the name of God
While shifting sands hid all our sins and all the blood
In the wake of glory, I flew back home
I watch videos at night in uniform
Of those towns and cities being torn apart
By those bombs that fool the people by being smart
As they flew down chimneys along corridors
And explode on film and everyone goes awe!

And you read the stories about how no one's killed
And I think about the photo that I kept
To remind me that it was all for real
And the ghost that I've become wil be released
To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies
About what really happened and who really died
Was it really worth it?
Was it worth the cost?
Did we really take the high ground or have we lost
All the moral battles did we lose the war
Mr. President I need to know for sure
That with all this knowledge all this control
That we were on the side of right after all
That we weren't lied to, that we weren't used
And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth

Mr. President you don't know my name
But you could find it if you really cared
It's on a black wall on a cross of stone
In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home
On not so foreign islands out on city streets
Mr. President just tell me why I'm here
This is my question, this is my life this is my address Mr. President