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[00:32.98]Yeah, I don't know why I'm over here, this job is evil
[00:35.65]They sent me here to Vietnam to kill innocent people
[00:38.21]My mother always said, "The president, he doesn't care"
[00:40.87]He tryin' to leave the footprints of America here
[00:43.37]They say we tryin' to stop Chinese expansion
[00:45.83]But I ain't seen no Chinese since we landed
[00:48.39]Sent my whole entire unit thinkin' we could win
[00:50.84]Against the Viet Cong guerrillas there in Gia Dinh
[00:53.61]I didn't sign up to kill women or any children
[00:56.26]For every enemy soldier, we killin' six civilians
[00:58.97]Yeah, and it ain't right to me
[01:00.78]I ain't got enough of motherfuckin' fight in me
[01:03.38]It frightens me, and I just wanna see my son and moms
[01:06.79]But over here, they droppin' seven million tons of bombs
[01:09.10]I spent my days dodgin' all these booby-traps and mines
[01:11.70]And at night, prayin' to God that I get back alive
[01:14.26]And I'm forced to sit back and wonder
[01:17.02]Why I was a part of Operation Rolling Thunder
[01:19.41]In a foxhole with nine months left here
[01:22.07]Jungle like the fuckin' harbinger of death here
[01:24.58]I don't wanna be here, I'm scared, I just wanna go home
[01:28.69](You fuckin' kiddin' me? Don't be a pussy, don't you love your country?)
[01:32.54](I like being here, I'm ready)
[01:34.55]True story
[01:35.05]Call me Thorburn, John H., staff sergeant
[01:37.20]Marksman, skill in killin', illin', I'm able and willin'
[01:39.71]Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage a village
[01:42.27]Illegitimate killers, US Military guerrillas
[01:44.72]This ain't no real war, Vietnam shit
[01:46.72]World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict
[01:49.98]Soothin' drug abusin', Vietnamese women screwin'
[01:52.72]Sex, gambling and boozin', all this shit is amusin'
[01:55.24]Bitches and guns, this is every man's dream
[01:57.39]I don't wanna go home where I'm just an ordinary human being
[02:00.24]Special Op, Huey chopper gun ship run shit
[02:03.01]Gook run when the minigun spit, won't miss
[02:05.40]Kill shit, spit four-thousand bullets a minute
[02:07.86]Vic the Charlie, hit trigger, hit it, I'm in it to win it
[02:10.53]Get it, the lieutenant hinted, the villain, I been it
[02:13.09]The killing, I did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it
[02:16.35]A wizard with weapons, the secret mission, we 'bout to begin it
[02:18.86]Government funded, behind enemy lines
[02:20.96]Bullets is sprayin', it's heatin' up a hundred degrees
[02:23.38]The enemies the North Vietnamese, bitch please
[02:26.07]Ain't no sweat, I'm told, "Be at ease"
[02:27.97]Until I see the pilot got hit, and we 'bout to hit some trees
[02:31.23]Nail the road, it broke, crash land
[02:32.98]American man in Cambodia, right in the enemy hand
[02:36.24]Take a swig of the Whiskey to calm us
[02:38.10]Them yellow men wearin' black pajamas, they wanna harm us
[02:40.71]They all up on us, bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain
[02:43.96]To my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain
[02:46.72]Body parts flyin', loss of limbs, explosions
[02:49.27]Bad intentions, I see my best friend's intestines
[02:51.78]Pray to the one above, it's raining, I'm covered in mud
[02:54.23]I think I'm dyin', I feel dizzy, I'm losin' blood
[02:56.75]I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother
[02:59.34]I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights
[03:02.24]I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights
[03:05.09]Black, Whites, Asians, people of all types
[03:07.24]I must've died, then I woke up, surprised I'm alive
[03:09.85]I'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived
[03:12.42]I escaped the war, came back, but ain't escape Agent Orange
[03:15.38]Two of my kids born handicapped
[03:17.78]Spastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalic
[03:20.18]Cerebral palsy, cortical blindness, name it, they had it
[03:23.00]My son died, he ain't live, but I still try to think positive
[03:25.26]'Cause in life, God take, God give
[03:28.06]by og