Click! Clack! Click!
Boots thunder the soil
Explosions vibrate the terrain
“Your left…Your left…Your left right left!” shouts the sergeant
Rat a tat tat! The M16’s sing
Don’t fear the Reaper!
“You will all be heroes!” smiles the politician . . .
(We need you to kill for America)
WE NEED YOU ALL TO DIE!
“Smile and play pretty for the Camera!” laughs the jovial media man
Wear this hate target on your heads
We can spit at you better from over here…over here
“Wear the Red, White, and Blue with pride . . .” says the recruiter trained in sales
Watch lifelong friends die
Watch their mamas cry
No Man! No Man! FUCK THAT MAN!
Click! Clack! Click!
Boots thunder the soil
Explosions vibrate the terrain
“Your left…Your left…Your left right left!” shouts the sergeant
Rat a tat tat! The song still sings in their heads
THE REAPER TOOK ALL OF OUR FRIENDS!
“You will all be heroes!” smiles the politician . . .
Just forgotten ones in the end
Just Fucking shells of who you were!
“Smile and play pretty for the Camera!” laughs the jovial media man
Pretend you can be men again
Beat your wives…beat your kids…It helps take the bombs out of your head
“Wear the Red, White, and Blue with pride . . .” says the recruiter trained in sales
It will help hide your pain
It will help mask the blood . . . the death
You will never be forgotten
Just nobody heard you then
Nobody gave two shits
About a war that should not have happened
It only did
I hear the guns
I hear the bombs
I HEAR THE CHILDREN CRYING!
I see the death of a thousand deaths
I AM THE SON OF A VIETNAM VET!
I fight back tears
As they flow down my face
I fight back tears
Of pain I should never have felt
But . . .But . . .?
What did my dad feel?
WHAT DID MY DAD FEEL?
I don't know...
what I do know-
He never felt a hero’s welcome
He might not remember everything he did
He might not remember…
But HE REMEMBERS THE PAIN!
He remembers being forgotten
He remembers the . . .
Click! Clack! Click!
Boots thunder the soil
Explosions vibrate the terrain
It is time to remember them
The ones who survived did not lose their lives then
They lost who they were...who they were, yeah man!
They were men!
Can’t we fucking see?
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