Well an old man said to me   In a voice filled with pain   Where you going young man   Said I'm going to fight a war   Gonna fight for my country   In some foreign land   He said "The sun will never hurt you   Never harmed anyone   But you must realize"   If you try to stare her down   She will win in the end   She will burn your eyes   She will burn them     Seen a million places   Seen a million faces die   And I wonder who will walk with me   When I get to Heaven     He said "Boy I was young once   Yeah I was tough   Sailing on Uncle Sam's boat   Hey I could kill the enemy   I could die on foreign streets   But I could not vote   But now you walk by me   You won't talk to me   Say this is my fate   But every time you walk the streets boy   Most of them you meet   You see it's you they hate   It's you...     Seen a million faces   Seen a million places die   And I wonder who will walk with me   When I get to Heaven   I hope I get there     Seen a million places   Seen a million faces die   And I wonder who will walk with me   When I get there     See this woman sitting next to me   She's been there for a long, long time   And when I fell, she picked me up   When I cried, she wiped my tears   I thank god she's mine   And when I leave this world   She won't have anything   But her love for me   'Cause the man took everything else   Made me hate myself   So just let her be boy   Won't you let her be