Fire in the
nighttime, we're on the
attack
Bombers
and missiles screamin' through the
sky
The
city's a vision in orange and black
Rock 'em with shock and
awe, hear the
eagle
cry
Don't
fight a land war in Asia
Don't fight in the desert
in June
Don't tell lies
Ya gotta revise
And don't count
your chickens too soon
I got mud in my
eye and sand in my teeth
They been shootin'
at me from a pickup truck
I ain't had a good
night's sleep in a
week
My
brain is cloudy and I'm all fucked up
I've been livin'
on speed and one meal
a
day
There's
a three-day howler ragin' over my
head
We're
here to help them and they treat us
this way
Think
I should-a listened when my mama said
(chorus)
We were gonna go
all the way in a day
With people in
chains throwin' flowers as
we pass
It
hasn't been at all the way that they
say
My
boots are meltin' and my tank's out of
gas
Lost
in the desert near an APC
That got taken out with a
DU shell
Someone's firin' at
us with an RPG
I
think it's friendly but no way to tell
(chorus)
Someone rolled a
grenade next to my face
A bus wouldn't stop
at the Bridge of Death
An unexploded bomb in the
marketplace
A woman looked at
me and with her last breath
She
said
Don't
fight a land war in Asia
Don't fight in the desert
in June
Don't tell lies
Ya gotta revise
And don't count
your chickens too soon
--
by Josh Wachtel and Alexei
Panshin
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