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Yeah, I don't know why I'm over here, this job is evil |
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They sent me here to Vietnam to kill innocent people |
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My mother always said, "The president, he doesn't care" |
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He tryin' to leave the footprints of America here |
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They say we tryin' to stop Chinese expansion |
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But I ain't seen no Chinese since we landed |
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Sent my whole entire unit thinkin' we could win |
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Against the Viet Cong guerrillas there in Gia Dinh |
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I didn't sign up to kill women or any children |
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For every enemy soldier, we killin' six civilians |
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Yeah, and it ain't right to me |
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I ain't got enough of motherfuckin' fight in me |
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It frightens me, and I just wanna see my son and moms |
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But over here, they droppin' seven million tons of bombs |
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I spent my days dodgin' all these booby-traps and mines |
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And at night, prayin' to God that I get back alive |
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And I'm forced to sit back and wonder |
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Why I was a part of Operation Rolling Thunder |
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In a foxhole with nine months left here |
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Jungle like the fuckin' harbinger of death here |
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I don't wanna be here, I'm scared, I just wanna go home |
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(You fuckin' kiddin' me? Don't be a pussy, don't you love your country?) |
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(I like being here, I'm ready) |
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True story |
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Call me Thorburn, John H., staff sergeant |
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Marksman, skill in killin', illin', I'm able and willin' |
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Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage a village |
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Illegitimate killers, US Military guerrillas |
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This ain't no real war, Vietnam shit |
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World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict |
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Soothin' drug abusin', Vietnamese women screwin' |
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Sex, gambling and boozin', all this shit is amusin' |
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Bitches and guns, this is every man's dream |
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I don't wanna go home where I'm just an ordinary human being |
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Special Op, Huey chopper gun ship run shit |
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Gook run when the minigun spit, won't miss |
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Kill shit, spit four-thousand bullets a minute |
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Vic the Charlie, hit trigger, hit it, I'm in it to win it |
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Get it, the lieutenant hinted, the villain, I been it |
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The killing, I did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it |
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A wizard with weapons, the secret mission, we 'bout to begin it |
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Government funded, behind enemy lines |
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Bullets is sprayin', it's heatin' up a hundred degrees |
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The enemies the North Vietnamese, bitch please |
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Ain't no sweat, I'm told, "Be at ease" |
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Until I see the pilot got hit, and we 'bout to hit some trees |
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Nail the road, it broke, crash land |
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American man in Cambodia, right in the enemy hand |
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Take a swig of the Whiskey to calm us |
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Them yellow men wearin' black pajamas, they wanna harm us |
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They all up on us, bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain |
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To my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain |
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Body parts flyin', loss of limbs, explosions |
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Bad intentions, I see my best friend's intestines |
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Pray to the one above, it's raining, I'm covered in mud |
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I think I'm dyin', I feel dizzy, I'm losin' blood |
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I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother |
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I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights |
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I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights |
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Black, Whites, Asians, people of all types |
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I must've died, then I woke up, surprised I'm alive |
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I'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived |
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I escaped the war, came back, but ain't escape Agent Orange |
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Two of my kids born handicapped |
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Spastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalic |
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Cerebral palsy, cortical blindness, name it, they had it |
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My son died, he ain't live, but I still try to think positive |
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'Cause in life, God take, God give |
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by og |