Afghanistan
Words and Music by Joe Bolinger
I got a tattoo of a tiger on my arm
and a Kevlar vest to keep me from all harm.
Gettin laid in a cheap motel,
I was high as a kite when the towers fell.
I got a tattoo of a tiger on my arm.
I slept on a mountain with a goat next to my head.
Shepherd gone cause I made him dead.
That fucker shook my hand,
Kalashnikovs in a burnt out land.
I slept on a mountain with a goat next to my head.
Chorus
Holdin down the fort, go to college, get divorced
and get a good career.
Sell cars, get bored, seek repentance, find the Lord
and buy your friends a beer.
They were puttin us on camera sayin aberacadabra,
listen to them cheer.
Go and be a man and fight the Taliban
and, poof, we disappeared.
And we've been gone 10 years.
Hadji Jack, he fought the Russians too.
41 but goddamn he looked 62.
10 kids and his wife are dead.
A drone took em out asleep in bed.
Hadji Jack, he fought the Russians too.
Me and Ortiz and Amanda on patrol.
Looked around, we didn't see a soul.
Go Hadjis, go be free!
That's when we got hit with the I.E.D.
Me and Ortiz and Amanda on patrol.
Chorus
Back on leave and going to the bar.
Cause a little bit of pussy goes pretty far.
Man, I'm not trying to be mean.
But you don't know all the shit I've seen.
Back on leave and going to the bar.
It'a a poppy seed bagel and a mocha latte
It's poppy field bodies and marchin all day.
I don't care that you forgot us;
At least something came from getting shot at.
Poppy seed bagel and a mocha latte.
Chorus
and a Kevlar vest to keep me from all harm.
Gettin laid in a cheap motel,
I was high as a kite when the towers fell.
I got a tattoo of a tiger on my arm.
I slept on a mountain with a goat next to my head.
Shepherd gone cause I made him dead.
That fucker shook my hand,
Kalashnikovs in a burnt out land.
I slept on a mountain with a goat next to my head.
Chorus
Holdin down the fort, go to college, get divorced
and get a good career.
Sell cars, get bored, seek repentance, find the Lord
and buy your friends a beer.
They were puttin us on camera sayin aberacadabra,
listen to them cheer.
Go and be a man and fight the Taliban
and, poof, we disappeared.
And we've been gone 10 years.
Hadji Jack, he fought the Russians too.
41 but goddamn he looked 62.
10 kids and his wife are dead.
A drone took em out asleep in bed.
Hadji Jack, he fought the Russians too.
Me and Ortiz and Amanda on patrol.
Looked around, we didn't see a soul.
Go Hadjis, go be free!
That's when we got hit with the I.E.D.
Me and Ortiz and Amanda on patrol.
Chorus
Back on leave and going to the bar.
Cause a little bit of pussy goes pretty far.
Man, I'm not trying to be mean.
But you don't know all the shit I've seen.
Back on leave and going to the bar.
It'a a poppy seed bagel and a mocha latte
It's poppy field bodies and marchin all day.
I don't care that you forgot us;
At least something came from getting shot at.
Poppy seed bagel and a mocha latte.
Chorus