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I joined the army when high school was through |
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I didn't know what else to do |
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Thought I'd take care of that traveling jones |
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Then maybe take out some student loans |
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They sent me away to the land of the dead |
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Where I didn't know a word that they said |
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I got shot at a lot, I was nearly toast |
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But it's the ones that I killed that hurts the most |
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Most of the time I didn't know what was going on |
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The rest of the time I knew there was something going wrong |
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Every reason we were there turned out to be a lie |
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I thought of that each time I saw another person die |
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I was supposed to stay for a year, they kept me for four |
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By the time I got back home no one knew me anymore |
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Of the man I once was there didn't seem to be a trace |
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And when I looked me in the mirror I didn't recognize my face |
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I wasn't home too long before the time that I fell ill |
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It was like the air was thick as mud and I ached enough to kill |
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I didn't know I'd been fighting in a nuclear war |
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DU was in my blood and I was knocking on death's door |
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I can't tell you how it felt to be betrayed at every turn |
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Like the earth was spinning backwards, like my heart began to burn |
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Like I had to do something while I still had the strength to stand |
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While I still could run with a machine gun in my hand |
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I thought of Halliburton and the military brass |
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And the things they get away with all for their ruling class |
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But I'm not a pawn and I can't just let it be |
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And if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna take some of them f***ers with me |
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I'll spare you the details, I did what I had to do |
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There's a boardroom blown to hell and soon I will be, too |
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You can say I lost it, you can say that I'm insane |
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But may no one ever say that my death was in vain |
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I joined the army when high school was through |
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I didn't know what else to do |
