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When my girl got pregnant well I dropped right out of school
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But there's no work in South Hill so what else could I do?
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The recruiter's came-a-knocking when this whole damn thing began
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They promised me a college education food and medicine
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They said I wouldn't spend a dime if I got deployed overseas
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Plus Baghdad is safer now than old Washington, DC
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So I signed that dotted line right quick and in a blink of an eye
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I found myself at Fort Benning where I practiced forming lines
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Well Fallujah became my home, my comfort and my dread
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The marines that came through first man they tore this place to shreds
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With the sound of crushing Amtracs and the whine of their Humvee's
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Calling in them A-10 air strikes man I wish I could have seen it
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But when we got to town I realized we were only legs
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We do dismounted patrols we do searches and do raids
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We hear the crack of small arms fire and the blast from IED's
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We hurry up and wait, suck in dust and stay low key


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And I cannot stop this pounding in my head
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I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said
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Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down
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But I'm oddly at ease with this chaos all around


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Then one day out on patrol doing time out in the heat
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We were ordered to a neighborhood to talk to folks out on the street
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To gather information on where some weapons may be stored
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Or to see if the Mujahideen had hauled them off out of Fallujah and to the north
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Well my platoon got lost and made more then one wrong turn
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We should have called in our position fast but we blamed each other first
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Then we started taking sniper fire - god damn them all
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We couldn't find the shooter no where he had us pinned down one and all
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Well friendies they caught up and we took back that god damned street
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But something wasn't right and I was feeling really weak
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My adrenaline was high and I was scared and I could hardly breathe
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I heard doc argue with the Sarg that morphine might kill me
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That's the last thing I remember that and heat and clear blue sky
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And thinking about my girl back home and my daughters little eyes
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I took that bullet in Fallujah and I'm laid up in Germany
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And I'm headed back stateside to the care of Walter Reed


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And I cannot feel a thing below my waist
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Doc tried to help me man but it was too late
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Now I don't know who is right or who is wrong
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But I'm fucked up and I want to go back home
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And I cannot stop this pounding in my head
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I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said
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Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down
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But one day I'll stand firmly on the ground
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Yes one day I'll stand firmly on the ground