"[if] There was no path,

[I] made a route by the compass

“Through the fields of cow and sheep”

"That the army taught [me].

"[To] identify an easy target,

"[To] see and hear what was coming"

"That the army taught [me].

'[To] rest [my] feet for ten minutes,

sitting on the rim of a stone"

"That the army taught [me]

[To] quicken [my] pace

[If I felt] wanting to shake the corporals off

"That the army taught [me]"

[At war} “With girls,

you did not need to talk

It was simple and you were friends”

"That the army taught [me]"

"Here at home it  [is] all too complicated"

[I] know [I] can never get through it again

"That the army did not [teach me]

“I don’t love anybody”

"That the army did not [teach me]