Story Behind the Song
Kind of a rough period for me on this one. Sonic had just bought his ASR-10, so we were going of into unexplored territory most all of the time. These lyrics depict the feeling of horror I felt for having sold a chunk of my life to the military. The world is a beautiful place, and I could not have seen it any other way. Moreover, these lyrics represent "inner war," the blood & guts of the soul stirred by the predicaments of being flesh.
Lyrics
...sometimes you - go down hard,
like a bad flood reaching its
- killing line,
breaking every water damn down that
holds back my - swirling eyes.
The drugs were good that day, Tracey,
because everything made me smile like a carnival.
I was newly wed, proud sailor, just off to
war
WAR,
loving every worrd you whispered,
gently - down the phone;
talkin' cheap, cheap, nasty - teenage sex,
7000 miles away...
...from some mid-eastern bar,
called the Oasis
O waste us.
I kept grabbing my crotch,
praying to god
that the world would end -
so i could go hom, and fuck my wife the - Chirstian way.
I didn't want to do anything wrong.
Mom, Dad,
they made me kill -
and watch lilttle girls, get blown to
one bits, 2 bits 3 bits, a dollar;
just so they can hear me scream
and make me msturbate
in some sick, little,
metal box - called a coughin'
locker.
You are a joke;
your are loser;
can't get a real job;
you are the navy,
became the motto I learned to live under -
under.
I came a half - hero?
Is that arrogant?
These uniforms are
arrogan - t.
My wife's on the pier waving,
weaving,
wearing - a stupid hat & a big ass.
O honey, before we make love,
do you think I'm fat!?
No baby,
I havent had it in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 months.
Ask me again in a week.
Get out!
Get in the,
the groove.
(got out,
got divorced,
got -
got on the street,
got nothing,
got me,
got my brohter of -ah
light,
got me,
got blown away,
got me,
got everything,
got everybody,
got me,
got to be a story about how...
...I know you,
don't give a shit.
I know you don't give a shit.
I KNOW you don't give a shit!
O - but i made you listen to me
anyway,
anyway.
"Got to kick the - habit, boy
gotta' kick the habit, boy."
But I don't want to kick the habit!
"Gotta' kick the habit - boy."
This is your brain;
This is your brain left alone,
alone,
ALONE!!!
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