Well, daddy joined the Air Force
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Said it was a good source
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Danger, love, and money, but it only led to divorce
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Ended up in Abilene
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Working at a Dairy Queen
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Put me in the Army on the day that I turned seventeen
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Here I am standin' in the desert with a gun
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Thought of going AWOL but I'm too afraid to run
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So I got myself a new plan
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Stealin' from the Taliban
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Make a little money turning poppies into heroin
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Sergeant didn't like it so they put me in a hole
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I said, "It's easy shootin' when they don't know where to go."
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Threw me on a lily pad
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Sent me home to NORAD
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I knew I'd be in trouble but I didn't think it be this bad.
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Stranger wearin' all black
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Met me on the tarmac
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Told him I was sorry but I ain't ever going back
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He said, you ain't in trouble son
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Learn to fight without a gun
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Got a new assignment now, you're working for the Pentagon
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Gonna take a trip, wouldn't tell me what it's for
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Gotta serve your country, gonna help us win the war
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MIT, PhD.'s, night & day, they're testing me
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Ain't what I was thinking but I'm being all that I can be
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I ain't no genius but I knew it wasn't right
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Eating uppers in the morning and LSD at night
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Send me off to deep space
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Help 'em win the arms race
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Ola me, oh mighty, but this shit has got a funny taste.
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I think I hear the countdown
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Hundred feet above the ground
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Told me when I'm leavin' but a'nothing 'bout a'coming down
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Sittin' on a bad dream
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Thousand pounds of gasoline
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Ain't leavin' nothing but some rubble and my slipstream
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Mama always said, I should be aimin' for the moon
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Never would've guessed that I'd be passin' by soon
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How the hell'd I get here?
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Blastin' through the atmosphere
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Drop the rocket boosters and I'm shiftin' into high gear.
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Bowie on the system and a bottle on my knee
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Armstrong ain't got nothing on me
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Hey ho, here we go
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KMAG YOYO
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Someone wanna get me, gotta come up where the sun don't go.
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I think I see a bright light
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Something 'bout it ain't right
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I laid down in a space ship
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Woke up in a fire-fight
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Trippin' from the morphine
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Came down in a bad scene
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God, don't let me die here, I ain't even nineteen
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I won't ever ask you, Lord for anything again
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I'll swear it on the Bible, Torah or Koran
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Lyin' in a rhino track
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'Bout to have a heart attack
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IED got to me, someone call the Medevac
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I need some fixin' after where it is I've been
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Never wanna go and try and shoot a gun again
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Slippin' out the back door
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Gonna join the Peace Corps
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Tell me, I'm a hero now, so
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Someone else can fight this war
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KMAG YOYO
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| Hayes Carll |
