The Perceptionists - Memorial Day lyrics
[The Perceptionists - Memorial Day lyrics]
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We’ve been looking for months and
We ain’t found nothing
Please, Mr president, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that
Your ass was bluffing
How unfortunate it wasn't what
You thought it, kid in basic training
They taught you how to slay
Men as a starter kit
And you showed up with a gun to load up
Hoping a college education's waiting
Maybe a steady occupation
Now you weighing many lives
Against yours president’s wars
Got you on course with
Holocaust sergeant is lost
General's boss plans cross
Now you in the crosshair
Of a sniper, shaky, scared, shot off your ear
Old, fucked up
Down one round just hit him and it’s
From some young, yet expendable citizen
He's from the other side of the line
Fighting for time time to see his kids walk
Time to talk with his pa
Time to have a rational thought without
The fear of being shot
Damn, his gun jammed now
You’ve got to bombard
It's a soldier's suicide slide
Know you tried hard
To stay alive when you're catching
Fire from both sides
And we miss you at home it’s
Time the government truly left you alone
Dropped you off and popped one in your dome
Now we've seen it in Iraq
And the Congo America's
Motto: kill their leader
Then we make a stronghold
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We’ve been looking for months and
We ain’t found nothing
Please, Mr president, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that
Your ass was bluffing
I never thought of this the day that
I enlisted: that I'd be dodging
Bullets, seeking weapons that
Never even existed
For someone else's personal beef
I’ll risk my health
While the commander-in chief would never
Come and fight himself
I feel I'm being tricked even
Worse that the civilians
Nobody ever told me that we
Would be killing children
Feeling like the ones that sent
Me here are the psychotics
But, if I say that out loud
I'm "unpatriotic"
But would Donald Rumsfeld back me
Up with the chrome?
Would Tom Ridge fight or would
He stay secure back home?
And would Condoleezza Rice cover
Grenades in the foxhole?
I'm starting to believe what I
Was told is not so
What's the reason for the war? I'm shooting
At these people that I got no animosity for
I wonder if I'm just a
Pawn in someone else's struggle
Or a hero even though I'm such
A small piece of the puzzle
I know that when I finally
Return where I reside
I'll make up for the months
My wife and moms cried
And carry on for all my
Fallen brothers who died
See, you can't take my pride
‘cause I'm a fucking soldier
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We’ve been looking for months and
We ain’t found nothing
Please, Mr president, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that
Your ass was bluffing
We’ve been looking for months and
We ain’t found nothing
Please, Mr president, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that
Your ass was bluffing
How unfortunate it wasn't what
You thought it, kid in basic training
They taught you how to slay
Men as a starter kit
And you showed up with a gun to load up
Hoping a college education's waiting
Maybe a steady occupation
Now you weighing many lives
Against yours president’s wars
Got you on course with
Holocaust sergeant is lost
General's boss plans cross
Now you in the crosshair
Of a sniper, shaky, scared, shot off your ear
Old, fucked up
Down one round just hit him and it’s
From some young, yet expendable citizen
He's from the other side of the line
Fighting for time time to see his kids walk
Time to talk with his pa
Time to have a rational thought without
The fear of being shot
Damn, his gun jammed now
You’ve got to bombard
It's a soldier's suicide slide
Know you tried hard
To stay alive when you're catching
Fire from both sides
And we miss you at home it’s
Time the government truly left you alone
Dropped you off and popped one in your dome
Now we've seen it in Iraq
And the Congo America's
Motto: kill their leader
Then we make a stronghold
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We’ve been looking for months and
We ain’t found nothing
Please, Mr president, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that
Your ass was bluffing
I never thought of this the day that
I enlisted: that I'd be dodging
Bullets, seeking weapons that
Never even existed
For someone else's personal beef
I’ll risk my health
While the commander-in chief would never
Come and fight himself
I feel I'm being tricked even
Worse that the civilians
Nobody ever told me that we
Would be killing children
Feeling like the ones that sent
Me here are the psychotics
But, if I say that out loud
I'm "unpatriotic"
But would Donald Rumsfeld back me
Up with the chrome?
Would Tom Ridge fight or would
He stay secure back home?
And would Condoleezza Rice cover
Grenades in the foxhole?
I'm starting to believe what I
Was told is not so
What's the reason for the war? I'm shooting
At these people that I got no animosity for
I wonder if I'm just a
Pawn in someone else's struggle
Or a hero even though I'm such
A small piece of the puzzle
I know that when I finally
Return where I reside
I'll make up for the months
My wife and moms cried
And carry on for all my
Fallen brothers who died
See, you can't take my pride
‘cause I'm a fucking soldier
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
We’ve been looking for months and
We ain’t found nothing
Please, Mr president, tell us something
We knew from the beginning that
Your ass was bluffing