We were young and bound for glory   Itchin' for a fight like you   Bringin' hell and purgatory   To the boys who wore the blue   And I thought I'd seen it all   Till the day night wouldn't fall   Oh, how the sun did blaze   Wouldn't go down for days   I got shot and lost my rifle   When the first wave hit the rise   And the guns rolled out like thunder   And the black smoke burned my eyes   And I watched it all unfold   Just the way the Bible told   Joshua's endless day   Keepin' the night at bay   And the soldiers kept a comin'   Til the ground looked like a sea   Of blue and grey   And I watched it from a distance   Wonderin' if I would've fought or run away      The day the sun stood still   How they beat the bloody drums   And the seconds moved like hours   But the sunset never comes   And the cannons shake the ground   And the bullets test your will   Even shadows found no cover   On that Godforsaken hill   The day the sun stood still      And I watched them lean their shoulders   To the fearful hail of lead   And I prayed for night to save us   And I cried and bowed my head   Bt the sun just kept a-creepin'   'Cross a cold indifferent sky   Castin' a deadly glow   On all the men below   All the hours in a lifetime   Don't add up to one whole minute in that sun   And the heroes and the cowards   Look the same when they have fallen by the gun   The day the sun stood still      And the north and south looked west   But the evening star was sleeping   And the daylight wouldn't rest   Out on the killing floor   The red sun on the the hill   Shinin' down on all the dead men   With a strange and eerie chill   The day the sun stood still      Do not judge what you brother does   Till you've walked a mile   Rank by bloody file   Who's to say if you'll run or stay and fight?      The day the sun stood still   Is just beneath the skin   In the soul of every soldier   Every battle that he's in   The day the sun stood still   Will haunt your dreams at night   And stalk your every sunrise   Though you will not know it till      The day the sun stood still   How they beat the bloody drums   And the seconds moved like hours   But the sunset never comes   And the cannons shake the ground   And the bullets test your will   Even shadows found no cover   On that Godforsaken hill   The day the sun stood still