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I joined the army when high school was through

I didn’t know what else to do

Thought I’d take care of that traveling jones

And maybe take out some student loans

They sent me away to the land of the dead

Where I didn’t know what they said

I got shot at a lot, I was nearly toast

But it’s the ones I killed that hurts the most

Most of the time I didn’t know what was going on

The rest of the time I knew there was something going wrong

Every reason we were there turned out to be a lie

I thought of that each time I saw another person die

I was supposed to stay a year

They sent me for four

By the time I got back home, no one knew me anymore

Of the man I once was there didn’t seem to be a trace

And when I looked me in the mirror I didn’t recognize my face

I wasn’t home too long before the time that I took ill

The air was thick as mud and I ached enough to kill

I didn’t know why I’d been fighting in a nuclear war

DU was in my blood and I was knocking on death’s door

I can’t tell you how it felt to be betrayed at every turn

Like the earth was spinning backwards, like my heart began to burn

Like I had to do something while I still had the strength to stand

While I still could run with a machine gun in my hand

I thought of Halliburton and the military brass

And the things they get away with

All for their ruling class

But I’m not a pawn and I can’t let it be

And if I’m gonna die I’m gonna take some of them fuckers with me

I’ll spare you the details, I did what I had to do

There’s a boardroom blown to hell and soon I will be too

You can say I lost it, you can say that I’m insane

But may no one ever say that my death was in vain

I joined the army when high school was through

I didn’t know what else to do

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