KMAG YOYO

Album: KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (2011)
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  • Well, daddy joined the Air Force
    Said, it was a good source
    Danger, love, and money, but it only led to divorce
    Ended up in Abilene
    Working at a Dairy Queen
    Put me in the Army on the day that I turned seventeen
    Here I am standin' in the desert with a gun
    Thought of going AWOL but I'm too afraid to run
    So I got myself a new plan
    Stealin' from the Taliban
    Make a little money turning poppies into heroin
    Sergeant didn't like it so they put me in a hole
    I said "It's easy shootin' when they don't know where to go."
    Threw me on a lily pad
    Sent me home to NORAD
    I knew I'd be in trouble but I didn't think it be this bad

    Stranger wearin' all black
    Met me on the tarmac
    Told him I was sorry but I ain't ever going back
    He said, you ain't in trouble son
    Learn to fight without a gun
    Got a new assignment now, you're working for the Pentagon
    Gonna get a trip, wouldn't tell me what it's for
    Gotta serve your country, gonna help us win the war
    MIT, Ph.D.'s, night and day, they're testing me
    Ain't what I was thinking but I'm being all that I can be
    I ain't no genius but I knew it wasn't right
    Eating uppers in the morning and LSD at night
    Send me off to deep space
    Help 'em win the arms race
    Ola me, oh mighty, but this shit has got a funny taste

    I think I hear the countdown
    Hundred feet above the ground
    Told me when I'm leavin' but a' nothing 'bout 'a coming down
    Sitting on a bad dream
    Thousand pounds of gasoline
    Ain't leavin' nothing but some rubble and my slipstream
    Mama always said, I should be aimin' for the moon
    Never would've guessed that I'd be passing by soon
    How the hell'd I get here?
    Blastin' through the atmosphere
    Drop the rocket boosters and I'm shiftin' into high gear

    Bowie on the system and a bottle on my knee
    Armstrong ain't got nothing on me
    Hey ho, here we go
    KMAG YOYO
    Someone wanna get me, gotta come up where the sun don't go

    I think I see a bright light
    Something 'bout it ain't right
    I laid down in a space ship
    Woke up in a firefight
    Trippin' from the morphine
    Came down in a bad scene
    God, don't let me die here, I ain't even 19
    I won't ever ask you, Lord for anything again
    I'll swear it on the Bible, Torah or Koran
    Lyin' in a rhino track
    'Bout to have a heart attack
    IED got to me, someone call the Medevac
    I need some fixin' after where it is I've been
    Never wanna go and try and shoot a gun again
    Slippin' out the back door
    Gonna join the Peace Corps
    Tell me, I'm a hero now, so
    Someone else can fight this war Writer/s: HAYES CARLL, JOHN EVANS, SCOTT DAVIS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • David Lloyd-jones from Toronto, CanadaKMAG-YOYO? I feel that way sometimes, but I've managed to pull myself together every time so far.
    Pessimism and self-pity are cheap luxuries -- but they don't feel any better in the morning.
    Here's your political thought for the day, from a Canadian friend:
    Was great? Well, best yet, anyway.
    Is great? Not too damn bad.
    Going to be great? Gonna take work. A fat guy with an $85,000 hair-do seems like more talk than work.
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