Casualty

He was a soldier of fortune, force to die

For you and me

He's just a number to his country

And so i'll tell you his story

He's 18, fresh outta school, just a young man

When the red, white and blue put a cocked gun in his hand

And told him to go fight for your land

Make em' bow down son

Make em' bow down!

Soldier for another's greed

He lives his life by his orders

Boy you gotta make em' bleed, bleed

He puts his life on the line for the dollar sign

And as he's pumping rounds he'll watch another man die

Feels like i'm burning on the inside…

He's asking why

Feels like i'm burning on the inside…

Fox news says it's alright, so you would think it's o.k.

But he dropped 25 people today and shot a little kid his younger brothers age

The hot sun leaves him red in the face

Dry mouth, questioning the american state

Is this war to free a people or to put gas in our tanks

So grab you gun kid

Grab your gun kid!!

Feels like i'm burning on the inside

And that's what he did

Feels like i'm burning on the inside…

They told him fight

You have to…

Fight

They made him…

And it took his life

In the blink of an eye

You'll have em' on the front lines

Fighting for the pigs, fighting for the blind

Fighting for you cash and american pride

So suck it up, suck it up

In the blink of an eye

You know that they'll be dieing

Dieing for the pigs

Dieing for the blind

Dieing for your benz and american pride

So suck it up

You have no conscience of consequence

For 3 days there was nothing

72 hrs. and all i saw were the dunes glaring in the sun

Then the sound, like fireworks, july 4

Except this is not my uncle's backyard

And the land of the free seems half a million miles away

The sand, small, buzzing, mosquito like

Stings my hands as i press my back into the stone wall

…the only thing that separates me from going home in the embrace of an american flag

Pieces of brick fly like moths above my head

As i wait, return fire, wait breath deep

1, 2, 3,

And then the sensation…

I'm riding my bike for the first time without training wheels

My skin parts like a body of water

At the will rifle wielding moses

I watch as a rawhide ball flies long and high over the right field fence

My organs snuggle around this pain

Holding it tenderly, like a mother

I feel her skin beneath me, against mine

Her heart beating quick, her breath catching

This is love

As it exits, this pain, this feeling

I wonder if this is right, if this is real

My mother is at my right side, my father at my left

My robe brushes the grass, and i smile for the camera flash

When they dig this thing outta me

This pain, this bullet

I hope they send it to you, to you mother, to you father

To you my love

This pain is for you, this bullet is for you

This burning is for you

I'm burning on the inside