Name: Soldier
Duration: P00H02M28S
Description: I wrote this about joining the Army. It's featured on the Pocket Cat! Records compilation.

Soldier

from 37 TRACK CD-R by The Business Fairy

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I wrote this about joining the Army. It's featured on the Pocket Cat! Records compilation.

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I hope they send me to Afghanistan
And ship me back in pieces
To show my family and friends
Just how I spent my final moments as
A soldier in the Army
Occupying a foreign country
Thinking, "I told you so."
While identifying my dead body
"We warned him danger would be lurking around every corner
Are you sure you want to do this we continually laid on him
But of course he didn't listen so now he's who we're all missing
If I could go back in time I would have made sure to convince him

To stay away from all those crazy things
He had going through his head
That concluded with his death
But of course we'll blame him
For his selfish choices
How could he leave us all this way
It doesn't matter what he wanted in the end

Why should I stick around when I could accidentally drown
Or while walking through the city get run down in the streets
And never see it coming
But I guess it's better than getting shot in the face
With a .50 caliber round
Or better yet, while snowboarding, crashing into a tree
Catching a disease, slowly waste away for the rest of my days
But you're right, that's much more respectable
Than being blown to smithereens

You can't make me stay away from all these crazy things
I have going through my head
That will conclude with my death
So go ahead and blame me
For the choices that I make
At least I'm making progress, hey
We're all dead in the end, aren't we, anyway

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from 37 TRACK CD-R, released February 20, 1987
Written & recorded by Keith Haynes.
Mixed by Justin Sinotte.

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