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Casualties of War!
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Casualties of war; as I approach the barricade
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Where's the enemy? Who do I invade?
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Bullets of Teflon bulletproof vest rip
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Tear ya outta ya frame with a bag full of clips
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Cause I got a family that waits for my return
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To get back home is my main concern
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I'ma get back to New York in one piece
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but I'm bent in the sand that is hot as the city streets
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Sky lights up like fireworks blind me
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Bullets, whistlin over my head remind me...
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President Bush said attack
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Flashback to Nam, I might not make it back
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Missile hits the area, screams wake me up
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from a war of dreams, heat up the M-16
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Basic training, trained for torture
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Take no prisoners, and I just caught ya
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Addicted to murder, send more bodybags
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They can't identify em, leave the nametags
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I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
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CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)
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Day divides the night and night divides the day
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It's all hard work and no play
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More than combat, it's far beyond that
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Cause I got a kill or be killed kind of attack
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Area's mapped out, there'll be no, Stratego
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Me and my platoon make a boom wherever we go
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But what are we here for? Who's on the other side of the wall?
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Somebody give the President a call
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But I hear warfare scream through the air
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Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare
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A Desert Storm: let's see who reigns supreme
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Something like Monopoly: a government scheme
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Go to the Army, be all you can be
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Another dead soldier? Hell no, not me
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So I start letting off ammunition in every direction
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Allah is my only protection
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But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same
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and this is Asia, from where I came
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I'm on the wrong side, so change the target
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Shooting at the general; and where's the sergeant?
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Blame it on John Hardy Hawkins for bringing me to America
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Now it's mass hysteria
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I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
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CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)
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The war is over, for now at least
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Just because they lost it don't mean it's peace
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It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about
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Whole generation, left in doubt
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Innocent families killed in the midst
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It'll be more dead people after this
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So I'm glad to be alive and walkin
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Half of my platoon came home in coffins
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Except the general, buried in the Storm
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in bits and pieces no need to look for em
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I played it slick and got away with it
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Rigged it up so they would think they did it
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Now I'm home on reserves and you can bet
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when THEY call, I'm going AWOL
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Cause it ain't no way I'm going back to war
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when I don't know who or what I'm fighting for
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So I wait for terrorists to attack
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Every time a truck backfires I fire back
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I look for shelter when a plane is over me
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Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over, G
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Kamikaze, strapped with bombs
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No peace in the East, they want revenge for Saddam
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Did I hear gunshots, or thunder?
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No time to wonder, somebody's going under
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Put on my fatigues and my camoflouge
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Take control, cause I'm in charge
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When I snapped out of it, it was blood, dead bodies on the floor
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CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)
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Casualties Of War
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