Casualties of war Casualties of war As I approach the barricade Where is the enemy? Who do I invade? Pull us a Teflon bulletproof vest Rip, take it out of your frame With a bag full of clips Guess I got a family to wait for my return To get back home is my main concern I'ma get back to New York in one piece But I'm better than saying that As hot as the city screams Skylights up like fireworks blind me Bullets whistling over my head remind me President Bush said attack Blast back to numb I might not make it back Missile hits the area Screams waking up from a war of dreams Heat up the M-16 Basic training Trained for torture Take no prisoners And I just caught you Addicted to murder Send more body bags They can't identify I believe the names and I get abrupts when I see Blood dead bodies on the floor Casualties of war Day divides the night And night divides the day It's all hard work and no play More than combat It's far beyond that Guess I gotta kill or be killed Kind of a check Areas mapped out But be no strategic Me and my platoon Make a room wherever we go But what are we here for? Who's on the other side of the wall? Somebody give the president a call But I hear war fans Scream through the air Back to the battlegrounds Explore They declare A desert storm Let's see who reigns supreme Something like monopoly A government scheme Go to the army Be all you can be Another dead soldier Hell no, not me So I start letting off Ammunition in every direction Allah is my only protection But wait a minute Saddam Hussein prays the same And this is Asia From where I came I'm on the wrong side So change the target Shooting at the general And where's the sergeant? Blame it on John Hody Hawkins For bringing me to America Now it's mass hysteria I get a rush When I see blood-dead bodies On the floor Casualties of war Casualties of war Casualties of war Casualties of war The war is over For now at least Just because they lost It don't mean it's peace It's a long way home It's a lot to think about Whole generation Left in doubt Innocent families Killed in the mist It'll be more dead people After this So I'm glad to be alive And walking Half of my platoon Came home in coffins Except the general Buried in the storm In bits and pieces No need to look for him I played it slick And got away with it Pick it up So they would think They did it Now I'm home on reserves And you can bet When they call I'm going AWOL Cause there ain't no way I'm going back to war When I don't know who Or what I'm fighting for So I wait for terrorists To attack Every time a truck Backfires I fire back I look for shelter When the plane is over me Remember Pearl Harbor New York Or B.O.G. Kamikaze Trapped with bombs No peace in the east They want revenge For Saddam Dead out here Gunshots and thunder No time for guns If somebody's going under Put on my fatigues And my camouflage Take control Cause I'm in charge When I snapped out of it It was blood dead bodies On the floor Casualties of war Casualties of war Casualties of war Casualties of war Casualties of war Casualties of war