I don't know why I'm over here, this job is evilThey sent me here to Vietnam to kill innocent peopleMy mother always said, the President he doesn't careHe's trying to leave the footprints of America thereThey say we trying to stop Chinese expansionBut I ain't seen no Chinese since we landedSent my whole entire unit thinking we could winAgainst the Vietcong guerrillas there in Gia DinhI didn't sign up to kill women or any childrenFor every enemy soldier, we killing six civiliansYeah, and it ain't right to meI ain't got enough of motherfucking fight in meIt frightens me, and I just wanna see my son and momsBut over here they dropping seven million tons of bombsI spent my days dodging all these booby-traps and minesAnd at night, praying to God that I get back aliveAnd I'm forced to sit back and wonderWhy I was a part of Operation Rolling ThunderIn a foxhole with nine months left hereJungle like the fucking harbinger of death hereI don't wanna be hereI'm scared, I just wanna go homeYou fuckin' kiddin' meDon't be a pussy, don't you love your country?)I like being here, I'm ready)True storyCall me Thorburn, John A., staff sergeantMarksman, skilled in killing, illing, I'm able and willingKill a village elephant, raping and pillage a villageIllegitimate killers, U.S. Military guerrillasThis ain't no real war, Vietnam shitWorld War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflictSoothing drug abusing, Vietnamese women screwingSex, gambling and boozin', all this shit is amusingBitches and guns, this is every man's dreamI don't wanna go home where I'm just an ordinary human beingSpecial Op, Huey chopper gun ship run shitGook run when the minigun spit, won't missKill shit, spit four-thousand bullets a minuteVictor Charlie, hair-trigger, hit it, I'm in it to win itGet it, the lieutenant hinted, the villain, I been itThe killing, I did it, cripple, did itPictures I painted is vivid, live itA wizard with weapons, the secret mission, we bout to begin itGovernment funded, behind enemy linesBullets is spraying, it's heating up a hundred degreesThe enemies the North Vietnamese, bitch pleaseAin't no sweat, I'm told be at easeUntil I see the pilot got hit, and we bout to hit some treesTail rotor broke, crash landAmerican man in Cambodia, right in the enemy handTake a swig of the Whiskey to calm usThem yellow men wearing black pajamas, they wanna harm usThey all up on us, bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no painTo my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brainBody parts flying, loss of limbs, explosionsBad intentions, I see my best friend's intestinesPray to the one aboveIt's raining, I'm covered in mudI think I'm dyingI feel dizzy, I'm losing bloodI see my childhoodI'm back in the arms of my motherI see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lightsI see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fightsBlack, Whites, Asians, people of all typesI must've died then I woke up, surprised I'm aliveI'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survivedI escaped the war, came back but ain't escape Agent OrangeTwo of my kids born handicappedSpastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalicCerebral palsy, cortical blindnessName it, they had itMy son died, he ain't liveBut I still try to think positiveCause in life, God take, God give
Lyrics by R.a. The Rugged Man
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