Intro: E5 E5 When my girl got pregnant well I dropped right out of school A5 But there's no work in South Hill so what else could I do? E5 The recruiter's came-a-knocking when this whole damn thing began B5 E5 They promised me a college education food and medicine E5 They said I wouldn't spend a dime if I got deployed overseas A5 Plus Baghdad is safer now than old Washington, DC E5 So I signed that dotted line right quick and in a blink of an eye B5 E5 I found myself at Fort Benning where I practiced forming lines E5 Well Fallujah became my home, my comfort and my dread A5 The marines that came through first man they tore this place to shreds E5 With the sound of crushing Amtracs and the whine of their Humvee's B5 E5 Calling in them A-10 air strikes man I wish I could have seen it E5 But when we got to town I realized we were only legs A5 We do dismounted patrols we do searches and do raids E5 We hear the crack of small arms fire and the blast from IED's B5 E5 We hurry up and wait, suck in dust and stay low key B5 A5 E5 And I cannot stop this pounding in my head B5 A5 E5 I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said A5 B5 E5 A5 Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down B5 A5 But I'm oddly at ease with this chaos all around E5 Then one day out on patrol doing time out in the heat A5 We were ordered to a neighborhood to talk to folks out on the street E5 To gather information on where some weapons may be stored B5 E5 Or to see if the Mujahideen had hauled them off out of Fallujah and to the north E5 Well my platoon got lost and made more then one wrong turn A5 We should have called in our position fast but we blamed each other first E5 Then we started taking sniper fire - god damn them all B5 E5 We couldn't find the shooter no where he had us pinned down one and all E5 Well friendies they caught up and we took back that god damned street A5 But something wasn't right and I was feeling really weak E5 My adrenaline was high and I was scared and I could hardly breathe B5 E5 I heard doc argue with the Sarg that morphine might kill me E5 That's the last thing I remember that and heat and clear blue sky A5 And thinking about my girl back home and my daughters little eyes E5 I took that bullet in Fallujah and I'm laid up in Germany B5 E5 And I'm headed back stateside to the care of Walter Reed B5 A5 E5 And I cannot feel a thing below my waist B5 A5 E5 Doc tried to help me man but it was too late A5 B5 E5 A5 Now I don't know who is right or who is wrong B5 E5 But I'm fucked up and I want to go back home B5 A5 E5 And I cannot stop this pounding in my head B5 A5 E5 I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said A5 B5 E5 A5 Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down B5 E5 But one day I'll stand firmly on the ground B5 E5 Yes one day I'll stand firmly on the ground
