The Only Soldier to Turn Up for the War

She was only a kid, and we can't understand How everything came to get so out of hand One of a thousand across this fair land Right up to the moment before She was the only soldier to turn up for the war She'd hardly been born before it began Her ma was on crack; she'd never known her old man Somebody said he'd gone back to Sudan Walked out on the infidel whore And the only soldier to turn up for the war So they took her away and they put her in care Christ knows the things that were happening there On the run, she got done for not paying a fare And this time they bolted the door On the only soldier to turn up for the war At sixteen, and having the time of her life She was up for assault with a cobbler's knife Which she'd stuck in the arm of a bartender's wife The sailors had just come ashore For the only soldier to turn up for the war There weren't many substances she hadn't tried So, for better or worse, they put her inside And that's where another small part of her died A part she'd never restore The only soldier to turn up for the war Then while in the prison, by fortune she met The best friends that she'd ever come across yet She listened, and over the odd cigarette They told her a little bit more The only soldier to turn up for the war An anger was kindled when she heard their vignette And when she got out she managed to get To the murkier side of the dark internet A place she hadn't before The only soldier to turn up for the war It didn't take much to fill up her head The videos proved what the prisoners said She texted the number she'd kept in her head And waited a few hours more The only soldier to turn up for the war So they came and they called and they took her in hand And sent her away to a far foreign land And she learned what the Prophet had promised and planned And what he was wanting her for The only soldier to turn up for the war And she thought of her mother, that old junkie bitch As she put on the coat with the miniature switch This was her time. It was her moment which Would finally even a score For the only soldier to turn up for the war He smiled. He said this was her ultimate test He said, "Go for the one in the Kevlar vest And then be at peace and for ever at rest" He got out and opened the door For the only soldier to turn up for the war