We busted out of class had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in
school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound you say you’re tired and you just
want to close your eyes and follow your dreams down
We made a promise we swore we’d always remember
Like soldiers in the winter’s night with a vow to defend, no retreat
no surrender
Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold, we
swore blood brothers against the wind. I’m ready to grow young again and
hear your sister’s voice calling us home across the open yards well maybe
we could cut someplace of our own with these drums and these guitars
We made a promise we swore we’d always remember
no retreat, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend no retreat no
surrender
Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim the walls of my room are
closing in
There’s a war outside still raging
You say it ain’t ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies in my lover’s bed with a wide
open country in my eyes and these romantic dreams in my head